On Thu, 09 Jul 2009 04:16:01 GMT, lazer fin
<lazer_fin@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
>deano: I tried option 1) but nothing happened. Can give a try at 2) once
>I get home.
>
>Bender: I have changed file permissions on my home directory
>(recursively) so that only the user has rw permissions, but it was a
>while before the current issue. Other than that I cannot recall doing
>anything.

Each user needs to have execute on his own directories. It is a
peculiarity of *nix file systems. Not having that creates all kinds
of odd seeming problems.