[Kde-nonlinux] K-menu woes

[Eric Kingston]

I've already posted this on the freebsd.kde.org forum, but maybe someone
from this list might have some ideas on this issue as well.  The original
message is as follows..

 

 

Hi,

 

I have a problem with the K-menus not being configured properly on a
workstation in a diskless environment.  When I log into the workstation, all
the familiar K-menu items are missing, including the normal icons on the
task bar.  When I run 'kbuildsycoca -menutest' on the diskless workstation,
I don't get the normally listed menus and their file paths.  When I run the
same command on the server, I get all the menus and their file paths and
when I log into the server the menus look normal.  Obviously there is
something happening with the diskless environment that is not allowing
access or missing file paths to the menus.  The only thing that is
different, (that I can think of), between the diskless workstation file
systems and the server file systems is that the root and /usr file systems
are read-only on the diskless workstation.  All the file systems are memory
mounted and populated from NFS resources except for the root and /usr file
systems which are mounted read-only over NFS from the server.  The /var,
/tmp, /etc file systems and the user home directories are all write
accessible.  Therefore, I must conclude that it is the read-only aspect of
the /usr or root file systems that is causing the problem.  Is there
anything on the /usr or root file systems that KDE needs write access to?
I'm running FreeBSD 5.3 stable, KDE 3.3.1.  I never had this problem on a
FreeBSD 4.9 stable, KDE 3.1.4 diskless system, and it's /usr and root file
systems were read-only as well.  Another thing I noticed was that the
following environment variables were set on the server when logged in with
KDM..

 

GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/a/standard/home/ericnk/.gtkrc:/a/standard/home/
ericnk/.kde/share/config/gtkrc

GTK2_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:/a/standard/home/ericnk/.gtkrc-2.0:/a/stand
ard/home/ericnk/.kde/share/config/gtkrc

 

.where as on the diskless workstation, they were not set.  This is probably
a very simple problem that I'll kick myself for not seeing, but if anyone
has any ideas on this, I would very much appreciate hearing from you.  Thank
you.

 

Eric

 

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