[kde-freebsd] Trouble

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Sunday 28 September 2008, Ray Madigan wrote:
> I must have something wrong with my installation and I don't know if it is
> KDE or not, it is that several aspects of the KDE userinterface don't save
> the results from manipulations of the UI.
>
> 1)  KUser doesn't save the information correctly about a newly created
> user. When I relaunch the UI after I create a new user it doesn't show the
> newly created user.  When I try to readd it it tells me it is already
> there, and when I attempt to login with the new user I get Login invalid.
>
> 2)  Network configuration.  Does not save the information.  When I attempt
> to launch the Network Settings UI from the Setings application it never
> remembers if it is DHCP or not and it doesn't remember the gateway or the
> DNS settings.

Hi Ray,

You don't mention if this is KDE3 or KDE4 you're talking about.

The system administration tools in KDE have always been rather Linux-oriented, 
and I wouldn't bet on any of the maintainers -- either of the FreeBSD ports 
or upstream in KDE itself -- actively working on them. Maybe Kris Moore & 
PC-BSD are doing something in that field, since that's a FreeBSD system with 
a really-well-integrated KDE desktop, as opposed to the more 
straight-from-the-upstream-source KDE that you get from FreeBSD ports.

My guess would be that both of these apps are trying to save settings in some 
Linux-specific locations.

After using KUser, take a look in /home and in /etc/passwd to see if the new 
user has actually been created.

[ade]

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