Originally Posted by yablacky

No, no don't flash!

If even resetting smscon does not help, it seems to me that you don't have write access to this file:
/home/user/.smscon-editor/smscon_config
or to the containing folder.

Could you please open xterm and enter following command (it is important to do it as normal user, not as root):

Code:

$ echo fluppy >/home/user/.smscon-editor/test
$ cat  </home/user/.smscon-editor/test
# --> should write fluppy onto the console
$ rm /home/user/.smscon-editor/test

Do all this commands work without error message? If there was any error message, please post them here, thank you.