On Friday 14 March 2014 20:50:05 David Bell wrote:
> On Friday 14 March 2014 19:47:52 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> > Might it be due to you first used it with sudo that now the files in that
> > folder no longer belongs to you? I have ~/.config/libreoffice/3 and
> > ~/.config/libreoffice/4 and all the files inside are owned by me and from
> > my group. Could you check the owner and the access rights? E.g.:
> > $ ls -l  /home/edos/.config/libreoffice
> > $ ls -l  /home/edos/.config/libreoffice/3
> > $ ls -l  /home/edos/.config/libreoffice/3/user
>
> These 3 files are owned and can be accessed by me.
>
> I removed "/home/edos/.config/libreoffice" as suggested by Dr. Nikolaus
> Klepp and this appeared to work. However, later on, a subsequent attempt to
> open LibreOffice resulted in the old fault reappearing
> and  /home/edos/.config/libreoffice has reappeared as well!!
>
> I can still open libreoffice as a sudoer in a terminal.
>
> A puzzlement!

Thanks for all the suggestions. I decided eventually to download the live TDE 
Ubuntu 12.04 disk and perform a clean install from that instaed. All is now 
well. <grin>