Midnight Commander blues

[Imyrryr]

I'm running Slack 10.0 with GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.0. When I try to open any directory in my home directory with it I get the following error:Warning: Cannot change to /home/foobar/any_directory. Basically any folder within /home/foobar/ produces this error

It does however change to that directory and show me the contents.

I originally thought it was because the home directory was chmod'ed to 700 so I change it to 744, problem still persisted. Changed it to 755; same thing. This doesn't happens when I go to the /home directory but when I go back into my directory it gives that error. I've tried different permissions on the directories in my home but still no reprieve.

Any ideas?

Thank you in advance.

[lakerdonald]

try a fresh reinstall of mc

[Imyrryr]

Is there anyway to find out why this is happening, first? Or at least what got goofed up. I know that may sound kind of silly but I'm curious like that.

[lakerdonald]

yeah, i know what you mean.
but honestly i've used mc <50 times, so i'm not guru with it.
but a lot of times a fresh install does things good.
out of curiosity, how did you install mc (i.e. source, rpm, etc.)
-lakerdonald

[Imyrryr]

used 'installpkg' and installed the package directly from the install CD

[lakerdonald]

was there anything unusual which happened during the install?

[Imyrryr]

no errors or failures if that is what you're referring to. See the problem is very likely something that I've done myself, (now there's a surprise, someone openly admitting, "Yup, it was me that screwed it up") since it doesn't happen when I use anther user login or if for any reason using a root login.

[lakerdonald]

if i remember correctly, mc creates a configuration file in your home directory? why don't you delete that file, so that mc starts fresh.
just a suggestion

[Imyrryr]

just tried that. I moved the ~/.mc directory and restarted mc. ~/.mc was recreated but error still occured.

[lakerdonald]

hmmm
that's strange. have you googled it?