Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:54:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers <timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com> To: Brian Astill <bastill@sa.apana.org.au> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: I screwed up my home KDE files Message-ID: <20021006104828.I86400-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200210052337.31335.nospam@you.nameit>
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Make sure that your (not root's) .kde directory (in your home directory) is owned by you. Also check /tmp and make sure the ownership of all the kde/X related files in there is correct. (kde-username, mcop-username, etc) and, finally, make sure that (in your home directory) .DCOP*, .MCOP* and .Iceauthority are also all owned by you. Sometimes the best solution for getting the /tmp/ files ownership correct is to rm /tmp/* then rm /tmp/.* and rebooting. Just make sure there isn't something important lurking in /tmp before you do that. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Brian Astill wrote: > 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 > <sob> > > 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 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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