Quote Originally Posted by krishna.murphy View Post
Did you just boot a CD/DVD, do an install to hd or flash, or are you using the "poor mans install?" If you have a "persistent store" (or full hd install) then whatever changes you've made (Polish keyboard?) most likely are causing the trouble. If not, it's got to be a hardware issue or a bad disk, I guess.

My suggestion, absent more information about the specifics, would be to boot a CD and see if the problem is solved. Assuming that's so, then you have some kind of persistence; so, you can either try to repair by changing the things you've been working with back to the default or (best looking to me) just dump the persistent store and then start over, making the changes you need step-by-step, monitoring for the problem you've been having as you go. You will, of course, want to preserve any files you created for future reference/use to create the system you desire and keep any documents, etc. that are stored within the permanent store.

Cheers!
Krishna
p.s. You can also try disabling Compiz (the fancy desktop effects package) by using the cheatcode:
Code:
knoppix no3d
for diagnostic and/or further use purposes.
I started just my sys by full HD install. No polish keyboad (I didn't knew it exists 2 month ago . then I've lost DVD access, permissions and so on, by clicking or loading some keyboard shortcut, don't know which. Compiz doesn't load automatically, but every time I put something from my Cell phone on the dekstop something changes and I see miniatures I see more like variable desktop icon positions I can change and it;s good, but when I unplug my USB, everything changes back

How could I lost my permissions when I didn't had them at the begginning?

My disc is good, I've checked him.

Anyway, I can't start over, cause I watch movies ad I have no other external to collect and store them. I use Knoppix since 2 months and the problems started in the first 2 weeks ...

I assume I used some keystroke with Shift or Fn on my laptop, so I lost my provileges.

Every time I go inside into "Skin Selector", I see an error, that Gnome can't be run? Anyway, the skin shows. The skins have folders like Metacity and Gnome, but there is no KDE. I don't know that much what it is, what it does and what happened.