[kde-linux] KDE crippled for certain user

[Bill Dika]

Hi Kevin:

Thanks for the reply.

The permissions, owners and groups appear to be the same for all relavant 
directories and files in /home/dad, home/dad2 and .local. dad's ID is 1000 
and dad2's ID is 1001. The relevant group is 'users' for both dad and dad2 
files and directories.

Do you think that this problem is so deep that I just have to copy all files 
from /home/dad to /home/dad2 and use dad2 as my login?

I would prefer to figure out this problem if possible.

Regards
Bill Dika



>From: Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
>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: Fri, 19 May 2006 12:25:19 +0200
>
>On Thursday 18 May 2006 12:50, Bill Dika wrote:
> > I recently installed Gentoo 2006 and emerged kdebase and kdeadmin. When 
>I
> > installed Gentoo, I kept my /home partition from my previous 
>installation
> > (Kubuntu). The user from my /home partition was 'dad'. Now when I log 
>into
> > KDE as dad, only the Actions items (Log Out, Lock Session,Run Command,
> > Quick Browser and Bookmarks) show up on the start menu and one menu item 
>in
> > Applications (which does nothing when I click on it). I created another
> > user 'dad2' and the full menu shows up (Actions items, and under
> > Applications: Editors, Internet, Multimedia etc). I deleted the ~.kde
> > directories in dad and restarted KDE but no luck.
> >
> > I am relatively certain that this is related to the fact that user 
>'dad''s
> > /home was already on the system when I installed Gentoo because as
> > mentioned above, adding a new user seems to bring up a fully functioning
> > KDE. I am relatively confident that the permissions on the relevant KDE
> > directories are set properly (everyone can read). Is this a 
>configuration
> > file problem? If it is, which configuration file and how do I go about
> > fixig it. It seems like KDE is getting limited information about user 
>'dad'
> > when it starts up and results in a crippled desktop for user dad.
>
>Can you check ownsership and access rights of /home/dad/.local and maybe on
>file (also hidden ones) in /home/dad?
>
>When switching distributions while keeping /home sometimes the other
>distribution has different values where they start certain user IDs
>
>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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