From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 30 11:11: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nwlink.com (smtp.nwlink.com [209.20.130.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2206737C108 for ; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:10:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jcwells@nwlink.com) Received: from utah (jcwells@utah.nwlink.com [209.20.130.41]) by smtp.nwlink.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA13183; Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:10:55 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2000 11:22:31 -0700 (PDT) From: custom X-Sender: jcwells@utah To: Bob Howard Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: KFM In-Reply-To: <395CD5C9.7E1BDA8D@fidelity.presys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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