On Friday 30 Jan 2009 10:53:58 pm Anne Wilson wrote: > 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. Surprising. I'd expect kde to recreate any missing file. I still kind of suspect a corruption of some kind in perhaps the /tmp folder or something like that which got corrected in the startup? -- Cheers! Kishore ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.