Hello,
I have a strange problem with: - KDE 3.3.2 - on a Gentoo 2004.3 - my home is mountd via NFS
- KDE starts but the K Menu is empty (it has only few entries from "Actions" like Logout, Bookmarks, but no Applications whatsoever)
- I can start programs with Alt+F2
- If I start kcontrol, the module list is emtpy as well
- /usr/kde/3.3/bin and /usr/kde/3.3/sbin are in my $PATH
Other facts:
- my NFS home is mouned and works ok (login from console is just fine)
- I deleted all .kde config files and directories and temporary files, then I started with a fresh session and the outcome is the same
- I have the same empty result no matter I start from KDM or from startx
I have created a test user with local home and everything is fine. As soon as I assign it a home via NFS, then again, KDE starts but with an empty menu. I have no delays in accessing my NFS home, GNOME works fine with it, from console it works fine, I wonder what is KDE missing here?
You have two links in the $HOME/.kde directory that you need to change:
cache-localhost tmp-localhost
These need to point to directories on your NFS share. It doesn't make a lot of difference what directories that you use but you should make them something logical if you want links to global temporary directories. Then add them to your /etc/skel using the $USER variable for the user account name so that new users will be correctly setup. Or, you can just replace the links with directories of the same name.
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