On Thursday 31 January 2002 01:35, Alex Fite-Wassilak wrote: > I tried renaming my .kde/ to .kdebak/ then the .kderc file to .kdercbak, > but when I start KDE it still crashes. I created a .xinitrc file, but > since I don't know much about it, it's kind of a hack job. I can start > the gnome panel, and gnome-session, as well as sawfish. I didn't try > anything else, so far. It's not really the fully-functional gnome > environment, but at least I can start X this way without crashing. Did > you encounter a similar situation? Any other ideas? I was thinking about > posting this to the advanced user list to see what they had to say as > well... Thanks in advance. > > Alex
I installed kde2.2.2 last night and did not encounter any problems. I logged out of X into console and used rpm -Uvh, then startx. Kde started fine. The fact that you can start kde without problems as root indicates that its most likely some sort of configuration file in your user directory (user home dir) thats causing your problems. I just created a new user (joebloggs) as a test and it works. When I logged in and started X as joebloggs it ran MandrakeFirstTime and set the default files in joebloggs' home dir. So I suppose you could backup your own home dir (use tar) to another dir (you could put the tar backup file in say /usr/local/). Start kde as root and delete your user account and your user home dir. Then recreate your user account and log out of X. Now start kde as user and MandrakeFirstTime should run and create default files in your new home dir. You could then untar your backup file in /usr/local/ and cp the files that you want to your new home dir. I would only copy a few files at a time and restart kde in case one of the copied files is the culprit. Does that make sense? A bit confusing I know. I used userdrake - just type "userdrake" without the quotes in a console as root. If you do try the above, be sure to backup first. Or if you don't want to do the above perhaps you could repost your question to the list in the hope that someone else can tell you which is the offending file in your home dir. HTH skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works
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