On Tuesday 26 December 2000 15:36, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 December 2000 14:58, civileme wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 December 2000 09:36, you wrote:
> > > Hi, I downloaded kde 2.0.1 mandrake rpm's from kde.org and upgraded my
> > > kde to 2.0.1 and now kde doesn't start as a normal user! only as root.
> > > After you give the login and password it appears the splash screen
> > > saying loading "system services..." and after that it says kde is up
> > > and running but I don't have any icons, background, taskbar, anything,
> > > even a right click menu. But if I enter as root everything seems to be
> > > normal.
> > >
> > > What could happened?
> >
> > did you run updatedb, rpm --rebuilddb, and update-menus as root?
>
> yes. and I'm still having the same problems.
>
> > If not, and if the user was running KDE when KDE was updated, things will
> > be broken til cron repairs them by running those routines, or you repair
> > them by beating cron to the punch.
> >
> > Civileme
OK
Try these one at a time
1. at the login screen, choose Shutdown->Console mode
Hit return when it looks like a partial message is displayed, then login as
your normal user account
$ rm -r ~/.kde -f
$ startx
If that doesn't cure your problem, try downloading and installing KDE2.01
again, but include kdelibs-devel as well as the others and use
rpm -F *.rpm
from the (otherwise empty) directory you downloaded the files to.
Civileme
