From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 6 7:54:34 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 7957237B406 for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 07:54:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516F643E6A for ; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 07:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g96EsOu88522; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:54:24 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id g96EsNQ88514; Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:54:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: serv1.wallnet.com: timothyk owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 10:54:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers To: Brian Astill Cc: Subject: Re: I screwed up my home KDE files In-Reply-To: <200210052337.31335.nospam@you.nameit> Message-ID: <20021006104828.I86400-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 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 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 > > > 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