Dear Dark Lord ( sounds kinda sinister don't it? ); I had to figure it out the hard way ! LOL! Actually, it was a reasonable deduction. I compared how the desktop worked for a normal user and the root user. Normal user had desktop icons, and root didn't. Only major visible difference was the icons. When all else fails, I fall back on an old family recipe that we call "Common sense and a bit of dumb luck". I'm hoping to patent the recipe soon! Gonna make a killing in stupid countries!
When I saw the difference, it struck me that KDE was waiting for something to finish loading, but that something was never gonna load unless it had been activated. Go Figure! 9 years in I.T., 4 years of college, $27,000.00 in student loans, and this is what it comes down to! That's it, I'm depressed! I'm giving up this computer stuff and getting a job at McDonald's! ( Yeah, right! ). Next time you can't figure out something in Linux, call me and I'll sell you a license for the recipe! LOFL! As to your new problem, correct me if I'm wrong, but this is a new install without updates, right? If so, log in as root, open konqueror, and delete the home folder for your user. Log out, and login as yourself again. KDE will create a new home folder for you. See if that fixed the problem for you. If it does, open a console and su to root. open konqueror, and delete the root user's home folder. Then logout and back in as root. The same thing should occur - ie; new root home folder. Be aware that you'll need to save anything in those home folders that you wish to keep, as everything will be deleted - documents, bookmarks, porn-, er, um, graphics, etc., so save them first. By the looks of your backtrace message, you've either got a couple of bad desktops and need to replace them, or the libraries which support KDE are hooped. If you can't get the desktops back in one piece, log in using Gnome, and re-install your KDE desktop packages from scratch. Either the laser lens in your CDROM drive is dirty, or you have some bad packages. Or your Kharma is screwed and you should stay away from KDE 3.1 ?? Grin! Grin! Lanman *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 6/2/2003 at 11:41 AM Ronald J. Hall wrote: >On Monday 02 June 2003 08:36 am, Lanman wrote: >> Ronald; Try login in as a normal user, "su -" to root, and run >"kcontrol". >> When you get there, open Look & Feel, and then Behaviour. You're looking >> for a checkbox to show desktop icons. Check the box, apply, close, and >> restart X. > >Thanks Lanman - that seemed to do it. How did you figure out to do this? > >Frankly, I'm having lots of problems and disappointments with Mandrake >v9.1 >here. > >At this moment, if my normal user opens a window on /home, then closes >it, it >crashes. > >If my root account opens 2 windows, and tries to copy anything between >them, >then both windows just disappear, no errors, no warnings, nothing. > >Here is the backtrace message: > >0x41037677 in waitpid () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 >#0 0x41037677 in waitpid () from /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 >#1 0x4075de7b in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) () > from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 >#2 0x411a33b8 in __libc_sigaction () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 >#3 0x41b61745 in KonqKfmIconView::~KonqKfmIconView() () > from /usr/lib/kde3/konq_iconview.so >#4 0x4008d8ec in KonqView::~KonqView() () from /usr/lib/konqueror.so >#5 0x4009633d in KonqViewManager::clear() () from /usr/lib/konqueror.so >#6 0x4009255a in KonqViewManager::~KonqViewManager() () > from /usr/lib/konqueror.so >#7 0x40068848 in KonqMainWindow::~KonqMainWindow() () > from /usr/lib/konqueror.so > >Any ideas? :-( > >-- > > /\ > Dark< >Lord > \/ > > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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