On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, CompUTILIZE Services wrote:

> anyway, when I logon as "bev" and do startx, i get the KFM 
> error: could not create ~/.kde/share/apps/kfm/magic
> 
> then i get a blank desktop (well it's got the toolbar at the 
> bottom) and if i try to run anything (at least anything i've tried), 
> nothing happens.
> 
> can anybody give me a clue how to fix this?
> 
At a guess you have got wierd permissions and/or ownership on bev's home
directory.
ls -al /home/bev and check that everything is owned by bev - if it isn't
use chown to change it.  Also check that bev can write to /home/bev/ - use
chmod to fix it if not.

HTH.

-- 
Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

There's no such thing as a free lunch.
                -- Milton Friendman

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