Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Scott Haug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sat, Jan 01, 2000 at 09:59:09PM -0500, Heath Doane wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > > 3) "Normal" user is unable to run X successfully. Root has no problems,
> > > but when a regular user starts X, the server loads, the screen goes blue
> > > with an "X" cursor, but the KDE desktop never appears (some drive activity,
> > > but no desktop)
> > >
> >
> > I had this problem when I installed a fresh oxygen while retaining my previous
> > /home partition. I created new users using the same name as the previous users
> > (thus reusing the old user's dirs), but the install gave them new uid's. So
> > when I tried to log in to my old account, I had no permissions to write to my
> > account, which I believe is necessary when starting kde.
>
> this is quite strange. DrakX has special code to handle this situation. And as
> far as i just retested, it works!
silly me, it doesn't works as it should, fixing it grmrmrmbbll...
