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Subject: Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login
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Danny,

thought of that already, /root/.kde is symbolically linked to /var/.kde,
which has the contents of /root/.kde and is populated at boot. That
/var/.kde is root writable too...

Thanks

Kim Attree

Danny Braniss wrote:
> don't know if this is the problem, but usualy, in a diskless env. / is
> mountted read-only, and so ~(root) is /root which could be read-only, 
> and so manythings break when trying to write,eg ~/.kde
>
> my 5c
> 	danny
>
>