Public bug reported: After installing a basic ubuntu system with only a few kde apps (e.g. kdevelop in my case), the kde apps don't work because they need write access to the ~/.kde directory. The problem here is that the ~/.kde directory is owned by root. A quick "sudo chown -R martijn:martijn .kde" solves the problem completely. However, I feel that this shouldn't be necessary.
This should reproduce the problem: - install a base system of ubuntu feisty - sudo apt-get install kdevelop - start kdevelop from the menu. After starting kdevelop for the first time, I see these error messages: dialog 1: There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. /home/martijn/.DCOPserver_margarethea__0 Please check that the dcopserver program is running dialog 2: Will not save configuration. Configuration file "/home/martijn/.kde/share/config/kdeveloprc" not writeable. Configuration file "/home/martijn/,kde/share/config/kdeglobals" not writeable. Please contact your system administrator. dialog 3: Unable to find plugins, KDevelop will not work properly. Please make sure that KDevelop is installed in your KDE directory; otherwise, you have to add KDevelop's installation path to the environmnet variable KDEDIRS and run kbuildsyscoca. Restart KDevelop afterwards. This problem was there on edgy, and now also on feisty. Frankly I'm very surprised that this problem persists. A quick search of the ubuntu forums reveal that many others have this problem too: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=261872, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=343295, http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=324173 and more ** Affects: kdebase (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Unconfirmed -- .kde directory owned by root, problems running kde apps on gnome system https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112781 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
