I have Mandrake 6.0 and am experience two puzzling behaviors First: I removed most of the icons from my desktop on my account and created some of my own. The problem is that every time I log in, all of the deleted icons are back! When I delete the unwanted icons I can check the Desktop directory and see that they are really deleted. I can check after logging out and the kdelnk files are still deleted. When I log back in, they are back! Judging from the timestamps on the kdelnk files, my best guess is something is recreating the icons on each login but I cannot find a script or process anywhere that is doing it. Second: When I log into KDE, the owner and permissions of several files in /dev/are changed. All of the file related to sound (dsp, mixer, audio, etc) are changed to be owned by me. The cdrom and all of the floppy descriptors get the owner and permissions changed as well. OK, I log out and su to root. I change the owners of the files back to root and set the permissions to 666. On my RH 5.2 with KDE 1.1.1 install this works fine and lets every user access the sound cards. When I log back into KDE as a normal user, the ownership is changed and the file permissions are reset to 600. I could live with (but not like) the change of ownership but goddammit, the change in permissions means my wife cannot use the sounds system if I log in before she does. If she logs in first, she grabs the files and I am locked out from using sound. What the hell is happening here? Is this a Mandrake problem (it doesn't happen on my Redhat 5.2 system) or a KDE problem? More importantly: can it be fixed? -- Stephen Carville -- Good News! NT is now approaching 23x6 availability!
