From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 5 22:45:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EF1237B401 for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:45:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tierzero.apana.org.au (sa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC97D43E6A for ; Sat, 5 Oct 2002 22:45:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Received: from BAPhD (dialup-8.pasa.apana.org.au [203.14.158.137]) by tierzero.apana.org.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g965jEL72439 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:15:14 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from bastill@sa.apana.org.au) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" From: Brian Astill Reply-To: bastill@sa.apana.org.au To: Subject: I screwed up my home KDE files Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:16:39 +0930 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <200210052337.31335.nospam@you.nameit> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did a silly thing - doh! I was working froom the console as su-root, then wanted to do some gui things so withour thinking I entered startx and ,,,, KDE has never forgiven me I rescued one or two essential files where ownership had been changed from myself-wheel to root-wheel, but this was never enough and KDE has become less and less reliable. It stopped holding my preference for 6 desktops, and gave me 4 instead - but when I used Control Centre to change back to 6 that not only worked, but the backgrounds and the apps in all 6 desktops were restored just fine (go figure). It's latest trick is to lose all the KPPP account information. Upgrading from KDE2.2.2.2 to KDE3 hasn't solved the problem. Everything in KDE as root continues to work just fine and I am sending this message from kmail as root (sorry!). Q. How can I rescue the situation and get my own home KDE files back again. I wondered about saving data files, then deleting user-myself, deleting the myself-home directory, then adding user-myself again (and then putting the data files back later). Would FBSD4.6 cough if I deleted a user and then promptly reinstated them? Is there a better way to resolve the problem I have? TIA. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message