On Thursday 30 January 2003 02:46 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 30 Jan 2003 2:24 am, iggy wrote: > > i've searched through the archives looking for past threads and have been > > unsuccessful, so here goes... > > > > if i log in as "iggy" or "root", either way the floppy drive (fd0, i only > > have one) and cdrom2 have a locked icon in konqueror. > > > > in the control center (this may or may not be related to the locked > > drives), when i attempt to configure users i get the error message > > "Cannot lock user lib, file /etc/ptmp or /etc/gtmp exist" > > This bit is one part of the problem (apart from the no-disk-in-the-drive). > Check /etc for one of the files mentioned above, and delete it if you find > one (or both). They are temp files left behind when something goes wrong. > > Anne
that did it. after i deleted the files i was able go into userdrake and add cdrom2 and floppy to user "iggy". afterwards, i was able to browse both. thank you and Douglas B. (same suggestion) very much. -iggy
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