Something bad has happened

argh, well, I was just using epiphany, then all of a sudden it crashed, no worries I thought. So I tried to boot up Neverwinter Nights for a game, said it couldn't unpack module...hmmm. Rebooted and then gnome wouldn't come up properly. So I tried to edit my .xinitrc and it said couldn't write to swap file. But...everything works fine with root? I'm in gnome now as root :-s. So what has happened to my user? Any ideas?
Can't do anything with my normal user now. Dunno how this happened.
I had just installed flightgear as well....
help

aCoder wrote:I'm surprised someone hasn't written any good firmware replacements for it that support ogg.  If you can put Linux on it, it should be easy enough...
You can put Linux on it, but it appears to be under heavy development.
http://ipodlinux.sourceforge.net/

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