On Wednesday 27 December 2000 09:12, civileme wrote:
> 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
>
I tried this and nothing, but I entered to X as root and then hit ctrl alt
backspace and the machine freezed, not only X, I tried to ping it and I
didn't got a responce. But after I rebooted I was able to enter as a normal
user again.
Weird uh?
> 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
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