I don’t know the answer to your problem, but firejail might be causing it. Pretty sure it’s suppose to stop programs from making changes to your machine. You may want to remove it and see if that fixes the problem.
—Side note... even though you didn’t use the software manager to download it, I think you can remove it using it.
oh my gosh- ya know what? That’s almost assuredly what it is- Dang- forgot about that- thank you thank you thank you for pointing that out- Bet it’s what is causing it- I’ll work on it tomorrow and see- Not sure if there is a way to add my second hd to the list of approved or not?
Hopefully i can still use it- but if not, oh well-
OK- i just did a timeshift system revert to right before i installed firejail- Yup- that’s exactly what the problem was- thank you so much for pointing this out- it was driving me crazy- I couldn’t figure it out-