Ahau wrote:Is this with Porteus XFCE 2.1 or 3.0rc1? There's a known bug with file-roller (aka archive manager) in 3.0rc1 which I have sorted out but this sounds a little different. Does it occur if you boot up without saved changes active?
Also, are you saving changes to a .dat file on a Windows filesystem (FAT or NTFS) or are you copying saved changes from one POSIX compatible (e.g. ext2,3 or 4) partition to another? If you are doing the latter, there's a chance you messed up permissions on your guest's home folder when you copied all the files (which would have been done as root). check:
ls -la /home/guest
and make sure everything is owned by guest:guest (except '../', which is the parent folder /home, which is owned by root:root).
Thanks for reply!
Here's my ls stats. My flash drive is formatted in ext4 and the external HD is FAT32. A suggestion by a Puppy maven to use Task Manager shows that if I click for Archive Manager via the Acessory menu that while its control panel comes up normal but will pop out again if you click New or others, it also kicks the CPU high with Xfdesktop constantly leaping high to 30% or more even when nothing's running. You have to reboot to kick the CPU back down again. Another item shows up high there too -- "x:0 vt07-nolistentcp" if that means anything. Can't Archive Manager be replaced like other modules?
root@porteus:~# ls -la /home/guest
total 134
drwxr-xr-x 32 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 ./
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 ../
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 966 Jan 18 23:26 .ICEauthority*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 44 Jan 20 19:49 .Xauthority*
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .adobe/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 274 Oct 30 03:27 .bash_history*
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 79 Aug 8 2011 .bash_profile
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 445 Feb 13 2012 .bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .cache/
drwxr-xr-x 29 root root 4096 Jan 20 19:40 .config/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .copy/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .dbus/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .fontconfig/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .gconf/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .gftp/
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .gimp-2.8/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .gnome2/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 248 Oct 16 21:32 .gtk-bookmarks*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 576 Oct 10 12:47 .gtkrc-2.0*
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .icons/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .kde4/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .lastpass/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .local/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .macromedia/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .mozilla/
drwxr-xr-x 2 guest guest 29 Oct 10 2011 .mplayer/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 49 Oct 20 12:35 .mtpaint*
drwxr-xr-x 2 guest guest 27 May 29 2013 .qt/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 17 23:25 .serverauth.2359*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 17 23:27 .serverauth.2371*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 17 22:25 .serverauth.5205*
-rw-r--r-- 1 guest guest 5 Oct 17 03:17 .slock_no_warn
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .soma/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .stellarium/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 .thumbnails/
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7646 Oct 10 15:38 .xscreensaver*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Oct 10 15:27 .xscreensaver-getimage.cache*
-rwxrwxrwx 1 root root 59 Jan 20 19:49 .xsession-errors*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 Desktop/
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jan 19 06:59 Downloads/
Jim in NYC
Porteus 3.0rc1 32bit XFCE 4.10