Re: [kde-linux] kde-linux Digest, Vol 38, Issue 20

Hey there,

Check that the UID and GID of the old /home/dad is the same as your current
dad.

-scoon

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Today's Topics:

1. KDE crippled for certain user (Bill Dika)
2. Re: KDE crippled for certain user (Werner Joss)
3. Re: KDE crippled for certain user (Bill Dika)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 06:50:41 -0400
From: "Bill Dika" <bdika@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [kde-linux] KDE crippled for certain user
To: kde-linux@xxxxxxx
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I recently installed Gentoo 2006 and emerged kdebase and kdeadmin. When I
installed Gentoo, I kept my /home partition from my previous installation
(Kubuntu). The user from my /home partition was 'dad'. Now when I log into
KDE as dad, only the Actions items (Log Out, Lock Session,Run Command,
Quick
Browser and Bookmarks) show up on the start menu and one menu item in
Applications (which does nothing when I click on it). I created another
user
'dad2' and the full menu shows up (Actions items, and under Applications:
Editors, Internet, Multimedia etc). I deleted the ~.kde directories in dad
and restarted KDE but no luck.

I am relatively certain that this is related to the fact that user 'dad''s
/home was already on the system when I installed Gentoo because as
mentioned
above, adding a new user seems to bring up a fully functioning KDE. I am
relatively confident that the permissions on the relevant KDE directories
are set properly (everyone can read). Is this a configuration file
problem?
If it is, which configuration file and how do I go about fixig it. It
seems
like KDE is getting limited information about user 'dad' when it starts up
and results in a crippled desktop for user dad.

I would truly appreciate any help anyone could give me, or any directions
that you could point me to.

Thanks.

Regards,
Bill Dika




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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 13:12:16 +0200
From: Werner Joss <werner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [kde-linux] KDE crippled for certain user
To: kde-linux@xxxxxxx
Message-ID: <200605181312.22531.werner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Am Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2006 12:50 schrieb Bill Dika:
> I would truly appreciate any help anyone could give me, or any
directions
> that you could point me to.

try running kbuildsycoca as user dad from konsole
(kbuildsycoca --help will show available options).
HTH

werner
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 18:36:51 -0400
From: "Bill Dika" <bdika@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [kde-linux] KDE crippled for certain user
To: kde-linux@xxxxxxx
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Hi Werner:

Thanks for responding to my post.

I tried

"kbuildsyscoca "

and got the following messages
quote
kbuildsycoca running...

Reusing existing ksycoca

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kcertpart.desktop' specifies undefined
mimetype/servicetype 'application/binary-certificate'

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'katepart.desktop' specifies undefined
mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-fortran'

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'knotify.desktop' specifies undefined
mimetype/servicetype 'KNotify'
quote

and then it exits to the shell prompt.

I tried running

kbuildsycoca --global

and got the following messages:

quote
trying to create local folder /usr/share/config: Permission denied

Configuration file "usr/share/config/kbuuildsycocarc" not writable
Configuration file "usr/share/config/kdeglobals" not writable
Please contact your system administrator
quote

Does local folder in the above message refer to my Home directory? I
checked
my /usr/share directory and there is no config directory in it. Should I
make the /usr/share directory writable by users other than root? Also I
have
no /usr/share directory in my Home directory. Should I run 'kbuildsycoca
--global as root or am I supposed to run it as a regular user?

Hope you can help me make sense of this Werner.

Thanks.

p.s. I hope I responded correctly to your post. This is my first time
responding to a mailing list post.

Regards
Bill Dika


>From: Werner Joss <werner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: For people using KDE on Linux with related questions/problems
><kde-linux@xxxxxxx>
>To: kde-linux@xxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [kde-linux] KDE crippled for certain user
>Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 13:12:16 +0200
>
>Am Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2006 12:50 schrieb Bill Dika:
> > I would truly appreciate any help anyone could give me, or any
>directions
> > that you could point me to.
>
>try running kbuildsycoca as user dad from konsole
>(kbuildsycoca --help will show available options).
>HTH
>
>werner


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