Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:22:31 -0700 (PDT) From: custom <jcwells@nwlink.com> To: Bob Howard <rhoward@fidelity.presys.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: KFM Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000630111755.1251E-100000@utah> In-Reply-To: <395CD5C9.7E1BDA8D@fidelity.presys.com>
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On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Bob Howard wrote: > List, > Sigh... I'm new to FreeBSD and now have installed three times, > once from FTP and twice from the newest power pack > distribution. > > >From CD-ROM, booting from floppies, everything seems to go > just fine... when all complete and reboot into the system I > log on as user, then startx using KDE. When the desktop > appears I get the message: > > could not create ~/kde/share/apps/kfm/magic > > and nothing works except some kde utilities and the ability to > logout. > > Stuff works in the root, but I know not to run there for > normal ops... even if not much more. Good idea. Anytime anything won't run for a normal user but will run for root the first thing you should look at is file permissions. Another tip is that if your system will boot that is a good thing. At that point whatever your problem is, a reinstall is probably not the best solution. Later, Jason C. Wells To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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