On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, CompUTILIZE Services wrote:
> I can log on as root and manage to use startx to get to the
> KDE desktop.
>
> I have created a user named "bev" and can logon ok
> (ummhhh, I have created and deleted "bev" several times so
> who knows what i've done :-(
>
> anyway, when I logon as "bev" and do startx, i get the KFM
> error: could not create ~/.kde/share/apps/kfm/magic
Unless whatever partition /home is on is full beyond the limits of
decency and you are operating on the last 5% normaly reserved for root,
it looks like maybe the system administrator has it in for bev and has
made somebody else the owner of her home directory.
Or perhaps (this is improbable, but easy to check) stuffed up her
~/bash_profile to give her a umask of, say 222 so she can't create files
in a directory she has created. You can check or change umask with
umask, but the system administrator will have to chown bev /home/bev if
that is the problem. Maybe look in /etc/passwd to see if her home
directory is really /home/bev? I don't use kde, so I have no idea why
it wants to create magic and is upset if it can't, but the other popular
reason you can't create a file is that it already exists.
There are so many things that can be wrong, it is a wonder anything ever
works :-). Particularly during the system administrator's OJT.
Well, I hope that's some use to you. Don't panic.
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
>
> then i get a blank desktop (well it's got the toolbar at the
> bottom) and if i try to run anything (at least anything i've tried),
> nothing happens.
>
> can anybody give me a clue how to fix this?
>
> Bev
>
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