The help on this forum has been tremendous. I'll try it again, maybe someone knows why... I installed Suse 10.2 on an old P3/900 box that previously had 9.1 on it. Both / and /home partitions were reiser but I reformatted / as ext3 and kept /home unchanged. I expected a few configuration problems because of the new version, which I had, but there is some weird s.. stuff happening, too. Like, I cannot install Firefox plugins or extensions as a user but can as root. OK, it's a permissions problem. But where? I don't get that b.s. from my main system which also has 10.2, but that was a fresh install all the way. I have stared and compared until I'm damn near blind and I am just baffled. Do I need to just put /home on the usb stick and start /home from scratch or is that too drastic? I can't imagine that being necessary. What happens if I blow away the /home partition? How do I then create the root user? Something about booting to the install disk in repair mode, I think. Any thoughts would be welcome. Fred -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org