On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:18:31 +0200 Benedek Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi > > On my laptop, every 30th reboot, the fsck program runs and checks the > files on /dev/hda. At this time, when I booted, there were errors, > like File duplicates. Something like that. It went into fixing it, > but couldnt, so it asked for root pass, and I ran again fsck. It > found a lot of duplicates, or some similar errors, that I didnt > memorize, as I thought it was irrelevant. Now, when I rebooted, it > all went fine, but my system time was all wrong. This is all in KDE. > When I right click the time, and choose Adjust time and date, it will > prompt for root pass again. After this, an error comes up > > "Configuration file "/root/.kde/share/config/kcmshellrc" not writable. > Configuration file "/root/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals" not writable. > Please contact your system administrator." > > When I check the /root/.kde folder is missing as it is. What should I > do to replace it? I tried to log in to KDE as root, hoping it would > recreate it, but it seems KDE wont let me log in as root. > > What should I do? > > Thanks > > Bence > The best thing is not to log into KDE as root at all. You'd better log in as a 'normal' user and do what ever you want to do as root on an xterm with 'su'. KDE's system management tools _can_ (I don't say, they should be run at all) be run suid root from a user account with the superuser password. Cheers, Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
