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I have been running linux mint 5 on a new sata drive for about a month now. with out problems
quite suddenly today, things didn't work. First tomboy notes wouldn't load then I would get an error starting synaptic. (the error is this, "Failed to run /usr/sbin/synaptic as user root. Unable to copy the user's Xauthorizationfile.") Next my system can't find clamav even though I have it installed.

Any Idea what may be happening.

I've restarted several times and I keep getting the same thing.

Any help in the right direction would be great.

Thanks
Ron

You could remove the hidden file .Xauthority in your home folder. (or move it to, say, the Desktop)
It is corrupted somehow.
Then reboot and it will be recreated

thanks Husse for the help.

besides my .Xauthority being corrupt. My other problem I figured out also.

I seems that Mint doesn't have any thing that warns you when your hard drive is full. Seems like something that should be added in the future.
What happened was this. I installed simple backup and set it up to backup my info to a usb hard drive. Well when I rebooted mint assigned a different id to the hard drive, (ie, first time was /media/drive, second time was /media/drive1).
Anyway simple backup when it couldn't find the usb drive created it's own drive under /media/drive. And began to backup my drive. I kept checking the usb drive and saw that it wasn't backing up my info and was trying to track down what was happening. When all of a sudden my computer went haywire. Well needless to say I have found my backups and cleared my hard drive and now everything works perfect as it did.

I think that if mint had a notification about when your hard drive was 90% full or something like it, this could help others avoid this problem.

I have a 500gb hard drive with 200gb of info.

Thanks a bunch.
Ronnie

That's a new one - drive1 that is I'll have to consider this a bug
Also read this
http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php ... annot_boot
It's about adding and removing disks...