On Friday 30 January 2009 14:49:32 Anne Wilson wrote: > After all the problems yesterday on my CentOS box I think I have got most > of .kde back. However, an attempt to login as anne still brings up > the "Unable to start kstartconfig. Check your installation". > > kstartconfig is there in /usr/bin, and $PATH has /usr/bin. I'm stuck now. > Everything google can find talks about "Chown -R myname:myname > /home/myname" but ownership is not the problem. Files are correctly owned > by both name and UID. Just to make sure, I did chown - but I'm 100% > positive that this is not the problem. Can anyone else tell me of another > reason? > That was a total red herring. I don't believe that it concerned kstartconfig - but it was missing some config file from ~/.kde. I had copied back a best-guess set of files from ~/.kde, without, it appeared, making any difference to this. However, I suddenly realised that I had not rebooted since I did that - just changed logins. A reboot brought my desktop up perfectly. Anne
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