Yay I figured it out so thanks but never mind On Wednesday, December 26, 2012 23:50, hc@xxxxxxxxxxx said: I am in deep dodo. Here is what I did I tried to remember the numbers for setting my home directory permissions & I did -Rv 777 and it did that ...changed them & now gnome will not boot & I dunno how to fix it. I can boot another partition on the same disk have U-12.04 loaded in both partitions. What is the chmod code & how do I fix my error? sigh I dunno what I was thinking guess blame it on a senior moment. hh