[kde-linux] /tmp/dbprof prevents login

[Kevin Krammer]

On Thursday 13 April 2006 01:37, David Jarvie wrote:
> I am trying to set up a second user on my system (Debian Etch, running KDE
> 3.5.2, but using the default Etch version of kdm). I find that when using
> kdm to log in to KDE, only the first user to log in actually succeeds. When
> another user subsequently tries to log in, KDE startup fails because of
> permissions on the file /tmp/dbprof. This file by that time already exists
> and is owned by the first user to log in, and is therefore not writable.
>
> Any ideas on what is the best way of dealing with this? What
> creates /tmp/dbprof? I can't find any mention of it on Google.

No idea, quite certainly not a KDE related file as KDE programs should put 
temporary files in /tmp/kde-$username

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org
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