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Just to follow up on this, and to send along thanks to Jerry, Christoph, and friend (sorry I didn't get your name!) for helping solve this problem. So: Christoph brought down KDE by Ctrl-Alt-F1, logging in as root, and doing init 3. Then by logging in as ken, and typing startkde, the error message came up: /usr/bin/startkde: Cannot write to KDE.startkde.fq12o9u You don't have write permissions for /tmp (Not exactly, but something very similar.) Which was very strange, b/c I own the KDE startup file, and b/c /tmp had full permissions for everyone. Also he was able to find by adding a new user, then that user was able to start kde fine. So in the end, the decision was that some file in my home dir was causing the problem. I had made some changes to my .bashrc lately. (I hadn't mentioned this b/c the changes I made were pretty simple. duh. :-( ) But after renaming to .bashrc.old, voila, kde starts again! So after investigating the .bashrc file, it turns out the offending line was (drumroll please...) set -o noclobber I'm a little worried that this now confirms my status as a Redhat luser. :-/ But seriously, this seems strange to me that a simple thing like this will cause kde so many problems. Am I just complaining, or should kde be able to deal more gracefully with something like this? Ken Gosier said: > Just to follow up: I do get a .xsession-errors file, with zero size. For > logs, I've looked in /var/log/messages, but must confess I don't know > what other logs I should check. :-( > > btw, the meeting announcement says 6:30pm for general Q&A. Would it be > cool if I brought this laptop to show people? > > > > Derek Martin said: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 09:23:47PM -0500, Ken Gosier wrote: >>> As an addendum, I found a bit about this on kde's web site: >>> >>> http://www.kde.org/info/faq.html >> >> I can't say this isn't your problem, but especially since the update >> didn't fix it, I doubt it. There could be dozens of reasons why >> you're having your problem. >> >> Look in your logs for anything suspicious. Look in ~/.xsession-errors >> if that file exists, for anything out of place. Chances are, this is >> caused by some permissions problem, a full filesystem, a stale lock >> file, or any number of other things. >> >> This is one reason (of many) why I prefer X apps (i.e. older, Xt/Xaw >> ones) to newer gnome and KDE apps. They tend to produce much better >> and useful error messages when something goes wrong, providing you the >> possibility of actually fixing the problem. But DTEs are all about >> being sexy, and error messages aren't sexy. >> >> Faster. More flexible. More configurable. 20 years old. >> No one can beat xterm. No one. >> >> THAT's sexy. >> >> - -- >> Derek D. Martin >> http://www.pizzashack.org/ >> GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iD8DBQE+Uvv6HEnASN++rQIRAmz/AKCxgSCAUSUmtKRDLrk4zwoMxVL2EgCgoi05 >> sUvXeTrDxHjBSpJ/orFszhM= >> =qBCg >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> Discuss at blu.org >> http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > > > -- > Ken Gosier > ken at kg293.net > ken_gosier at yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss -- Ken Gosier ken at kg293.net ken_gosier at yahoo.com
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