[kde-linux] KDE crippled for certain user

[Bill Dika]

Hi Werner:

Thanks for responding to my post.

I tried

"kbuildsyscoca "

and got the following messages
quote
kbuildsycoca running...

Reusing existing ksycoca

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kcertpart.desktop' specifies undefined 
mimetype/servicetype 'application/binary-certificate'

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'katepart.desktop' specifies undefined 
mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-fortran'

kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'knotify.desktop' specifies undefined 
mimetype/servicetype 'KNotify'
quote

and then it exits to the shell prompt.

I tried running

kbuildsycoca --global

and got the following messages:

quote
trying to create local folder /usr/share/config: Permission denied

Configuration file "usr/share/config/kbuuildsycocarc" not writable
Configuration file "usr/share/config/kdeglobals" not writable
Please contact your system administrator
quote

Does local folder in the above message refer to my Home directory? I checked 
my /usr/share directory and there is no config directory in it. Should I 
make the /usr/share directory writable by users other than root? Also I have 
no /usr/share directory in my Home directory. Should I run 'kbuildsycoca 
--global as root or am I supposed to run it as a regular user?

Hope you can help me make sense of this Werner.

Thanks.

p.s. I hope I responded correctly to your post. This is my first time 
responding to a mailing list post.

Regards
Bill Dika


>From: Werner Joss <werner at hoernerfranzracing.de>
>Reply-To: For people using KDE on Linux with related questions/problems 
><kde-linux at kde.org>
>To: kde-linux at kde.org
>Subject: Re: [kde-linux] KDE crippled for certain user
>Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 13:12:16 +0200
>
>Am Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2006 12:50 schrieb Bill Dika:
> > I would truly appreciate any help anyone could give me, or any 
>directions
> > that you could point me to.
>
>try running kbuildsycoca as user dad from konsole
>(kbuildsycoca --help will show available options).
>HTH
>
>werner


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