[kde-linux] Possibility of problems when copying files over?

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 25 Jan 2008, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 24 January 2008 19:21:47 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >> The first question is how you made the back up.  If you simply made a
> >> copy, you should have used the command:
> >>
> >> 	cp -a
> >>
> >> both to save and to restore.  If you didn't, you may have screwed up
> >> file permissions.
> >
> > I simply copied all the relevant folders onto a removable drive.  I have
> > kept my uid and gid, so didn't expect any problem.
>
> It is making a backup copy without using the "-a" option that can cause
> problems.  That is if you "simply copy" permissions *will* probably be
> changed.
>
I don't think they were.  I should mention that they were copied to an ext3 
partition on a usb drive.
> OK, you have the ownership correct.  The next most likely thing is that
> the contents of:
>
> 	$HOME/.kde/share/apps
> 	$HOME/.kde/share/config
>
> Must have modification privileges for the user.  That is, those
> directories and all subdirectories must be 7xx, and all files must be 6xx.
>
They are all fine.

> Then there are:
>
> 	$HOME/.kde/cache-localhost
> 	$HOME/.kde/socket-localhost
> 	$HOME/.kde/tmp-localhost
>
> You should not back up these links.  So, logout of KDE and X.  From a
> text console as root, delete these links.  Also delete:
>
> 	/var/tmp/kdecache-<user>
> 	/tmp/kde-<user>
> 	/tmp/ksocket-<user>
>
> {These are the standard locations.  Your distro might be different, but,
> IAC, these are the directories that the above three links point to.
>
> Now restart KDE.

Sadly, all is the same.  I still can't 'end-session'.  I can shut down 
cleanly.  That will have to do until I can find the problem.

One good thing, though.  My samba problems on that laptop disappeared 
overnight.  I hate it when something happens that I can't explain, but I'll 
have to be thankful for small mercies.

Anne
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