I've been using Mandrake 9 for a few weeks. Yesterday, something happened that corrupted my root user preferences, and I can't determine how to fix this.
1) Under root log in, no apps will launch in KDE or Enlightenment from the menu / icon buttons. This happened suddenly. Core dumps every time I try. Under another user on this same install, *no problems*
2) The following shows in the system logs and .Xsession errors: ** ERROR **: First `engine' section must include a `stock' section. aborting...
This shows for any application I try to launch from KDE menu. Not even harddrake can launch. From the command line, the same prints at STDOUT.
I've done all the obvious things, like remove those hidden files in /root that have anything to do with KDE (or X in general) No luck. This is not system-wide screw-up; only one user on my system is hindered in any way.
So, I ask:
a) What sort of files could be corrupted for a given user?
b) If that user is root, is there any way of getting back vanilla files, short of re-installing to whole system? For a regular user, I could just run adduser, get stuff from /etc/skel, manually do a new group/user id. But for root... I couldn't remove the root user. Could I?
c) Why would something like this affect kde? xmms was the first thing to go, But I was able to run this under GNOME, as root. What kde-specific prefs could be screwed for a particular user?
I've seen several posts on this problem across the internet. Either the question was ignored, or flamed in a rude way.
Thank you for any leads!
-John
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