[kdepim-users] kmail can't be reconfigured on either F10 nor on mdv2010

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 26 December 2009 17:58:48 Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 26 December 2009, James Kerr wrote:
> >On Saturday 26 December 2009 Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> Greetings all;
> >>
> >> Since the most recent updates by both fedora for F10, which is
> >>  EOL'd now, nor for mdv 2010-x86-64, I cannot edit the
> >>  kmail->config kmail->accounts->send screens, nothing I do on
> >>  either machine in 3 different account entries will un-ghost the
> >>  apply button.
> >>
> >> Its working on F10, but I'm trying to move to a 64 bit mandriva
> >>  2010 install.
> >
> >Your second paragraph seems to conflict with the subject. Assuming
> >that the second paragraph is correct, then did you copy your kmail
> >config files from F10 to Mandriva? If so, are you using the same
> >UID/GID on both systems? IIRC, they use different defaults. You may
> >need to change the ownership of your kmail config files.
> >
> >Jim
> 
> I mounted this F10 installs /home to a mint 8 install as its own /home, and
> chown -R gene:gene the whole gene tree there, gained root and monted /root
>  to the mint 8 /mnt tree and using mc, copied the root version of kmailrc
>  over the top of the mint 8 version in /home/gene and chown gene:gene
>  kmailrc. Which didn't work rather spectacularly.  So I rebooted to F10 and
>  did as root 'chown -R gene:gene /home/gene' which seemed to restore the
>  /home stuff here.
> 
> I'm uid/gid=0 here, 500:500 on the mdv install.  Trying to break myself of
> running as root. :-)  Only been doing it since RH5.1...
> 
> What I did on the mdv install was to mount this drive, then used mc to copy
> the  /root... kmailrc to the /home/gene/.kde tree and chown  gene:gene
> kmailrc.  While kmail was not running.
> 
> That got all my folders back when kmail was restarted, and the mail filters
> that sort it all to the various folders also works, but I cannot modify any
> config data, apparently on either install now.  Wierd.
> 
> I suppose mc could have munged something in the perms numbers preventing
>  gene from updating his own file?  Haven't checked yet, been too darned
>  real around here this morning so far.  What should an ls -l show for
>  kmailrc when its owned by a common user?
> 
> Here on F10, its owned by root of course:
> -rw------- 1 root root 141234 2009-12-26 12:51 kmailrc
> 
> And that looks pretty restrictive for anybody else.  But I should be able
>  to update it.
> 
> Thanks James.
> 
Gener - check out http://userbase.kde.org/KMail/FAQs_Hints_and_Tips#Migration

Make sure you have all the files mentioned there, copied across and perms 
corrected.

Anne
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