Re: [kde-linux] KDE crippled for certain user

Hi Kevin:

Thanks for the reply.

The permissions, owners and groups appear to be the same for all relavant
directories and files in /home/dad, home/dad2 and .local. dad's ID is 1000
and dad2's ID is 1001. The relevant group is 'users' for both dad and dad2
files and directories.

Do you think that this problem is so deep that I just have to copy all files
from /home/dad to /home/dad2 and use dad2 as my login?

I would prefer to figure out this problem if possible.

Regards
Bill Dika



From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx>
Reply-To: For people using KDE on Linux with related questions/problems
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To: kde-linux@xxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [kde-linux] KDE crippled for certain user
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 12:25:19 +0200

On Thursday 18 May 2006 12:50, Bill Dika wrote:
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.

Can you check ownsership and access rights of /home/dad/.local and maybe on
file (also hidden ones) in /home/dad?

When switching distributions while keeping /home sometimes the other
distribution has different values where they start certain user IDs

Cheers,
Kevin

--
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org


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