[arch-general] Permissions Problem possibly

[Iyán Méndez Veiga]

On lunes, 6 de julio de 2020 13:15:00 (CEST) pete via arch-general wrote:
> I get problems such as  system settings do not stick    libreofice complains
> about backup files   some things work some play up or fail  completely
> Kaffeine for one just bombs out  i believe this is a permissions thing  but
> cant find any usefull info as to exactly what should be what  if you follow
>    .

Do you have a separate partition for /home. It may be that your home partition 
got mounted as read-only for some reason. Can you create a new file in $HOME?
Try, for example, to do
$ touch $HOME/test