Notification and Network Preferences won't save in Yosemite

When I change my notification centre to ‘Sort Manually’, sort it manually, and change the banners to my liking, the settings hold until I reboot. The same is true when ordering my preferred networks in Network settings. Any way to fix this?

The article at this link provided a solution that worked for me.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1803815

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After doing some more digging I seemed to have solved by own problem. Thought I'd share it just in case someone else has the problem.
The problem ended up being that my "localtime" file was locked. When originally trying to solve this problem there was a solution suggested about the "localtime" file being corrupt. That was found on this post.
+http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8418135#8418135+
A post by barnamink read:
I had this problem, and after unsuccessful attempts by Apple's support to diagnose it, I figured it out myself. The problem was with the /etc/localtime file. It was a directory, instead of a symlink. I think Tiger (which is just what I migrated from) used to have it as a directory, whereas Leopard changed it to a symlink. Long story short, if you erase / rename your /etc/localtime, and then set the timezone, it will start working.
You will need to enable the root user for this, so be sure you know what you're doing. But once you're root, just do a
+cd /etc+
+mv localtime localtime.old+
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usr/share/zoneinfo/US/pacific
I made a new alias and named it localtime. Then I replaced the one in the /etc directory. The funny thing was that it would point back to the "pacific" file, but when I would open my date and time preferences and try to reset the time zone it changed the alias to point back to GMT which was located at usr/share/zoneinfo. So to try and stop this from happening I repeated the process of making a new alias and then locked it. It prevented it from repointing back to the GMT file, but it did not solve my problem.
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+http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8073323&#8073323+
The solution was posted by Steve Gregorich and I adopted it for my problem. It boils down to this.
+Open /Applications/Utilities/Terminal, and paste this text in, but DON'T press enter yet.+
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+Good Luck.+
+Message was edited by: Steve Gregorich+
I had to use the "Sudo" command and so this is what I typed.
+sudo chflags nouchg /private/etc/localtime+
That did indeed unlock the file. I should have tried my clock preferences at this step to see if they saved, but I didn't because my mind was still on the track of replacing the file. If you try this solution, I suggest trying the preferences at this point, because I think what I did next was unnecessary. I went through the whole process I described earlier about making a new alias and replacing he "localtime" file with the new alias. After doing that my clock now seems to work.
Sorry for anyone who reads this if I rambled and took too long to explain, but I thought clarity was important. I've been trying to solve this whole clock thing or over a month on and off and so actually finding a solution is a big deal. I hope this helps anyone else who may have this problem.
Cheers!
Message was edited by: Spencer Filichia

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Macbook Pro, shipped with Lion.
I've had a problem when Lion resumes from sleep of not being able to access any networks. Specifically, the wifi symbol in the menu bar shows the pulsating waves, when clicked it reports that it is searching for networks, however it doesn't find the standard wireless network it is normally connected to at home, nor can I choose any further options in that dropdown menu. Specifically, I cannot access Network Preferences, via any GUI based method (don't know enough CLI to know how).
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Have you installed any additonal system prefence panels?
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If anyone can help me with this I'd be so grateful. I've looked through the other advice I can find on this forum, and on other sites, and have tried the solutions I've found suggested, but nothing's worked so far.
I've tried deleting the preferences files and rebuilding them several times. I've tried reinstalling iTunes several times, too. I've also tried launching iTunes from a different user account, created for the purpose. But I can't get my preferences to save. If I can't set iTunes up the way I'd like it, this could reverse my decision to buy an iPod. I'm not great with computers, and it's driving me to distraction. Any and all advice v gratefully received !

Thanks for the reply!!!
The instructions I used were off this Apple Support site...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1751
I get both options to choose as well as create. I used choose when I did mine and it worked.
I did copy her entire itunes library.
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