KDE4: Home folder files deleted

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Mon Aug 7 07:04:59 BST 2006


Matthias Lechner wrote:
>Hi,
>
>as I wanted to start contributing to KDE4, yesterday I decided to build
> a basic KDE4 environment. The building process was very fast (much
> better than with autotools!) and there were just a very few problems
> which were related to my system.
>
>But when I started X and startkde just a few minutes ago I got some
> error messages related to kio and I was left with a blank screen with
> only the background visible. So I killed the X server and when I tried
> to restart it I noticed that all files in my home folder
> (/home/kde-devel) with the exception of
> /home/kde-devel/kde/share/[applications,autostart] had been deleted :-(
>
>How does this come?

The code is buggy. Feel free to track the error down and fix it.

Obviously, it shouldn't delete anything and I have no idea how that came 
to pass.

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