On Tue, Jan 15, 2002 at 11:06:26PM +0100, Marc Schöchlin wrote: > On my system normal users are not able to login in kde - it doesn't > matter if I startup > kde from GDM or from console with startx. > If i startup kde i can see for a short period of time the dotted > x-screen, after that i saw my kde2 backgroundcolor, > then the procedure returns back to console or GDM. > The kde splashscreen is not shown.... > > The courious thing is that starting kde works very well for the > root-user, and starting other > desktops (i.e. gnome) as normal user works also.
Last time I had this problem it was because I'd run some kde commands as root via sudo. I was testing some stuff and didnt feel like changing groups/setting new permissions. The fallout was that it made ~/.DCOPserver* owned by root and a few other files under ~/.kde as well. I wound up loggin in as root, killing all running processes running as my login and doing a chown -R user /home/user That fixed it for me. Hope that helps. You might also want to clean up /tmp also in case there's anything in there with bad ownership. Lesson Learned: some kde apps are not sudo friendly. -- Mental ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) This is my impression of a bowling ball... (Drags the mike along the floor, then lifts it...) Gutter... --Steven Wright GPG public key: http://www.neverlight.com/Mental.asc
