Drunken friend borked my KDE!!!

thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

Ok...I HAD a working KDE install with full sound support, as root.
I went to a friend to try and get KDE to work as a user, and he told me to chmod 700 my home dir and chmod -R 777 /tmp

I don't know if that was right or not, but I found out later he was drunk.

NOW, I still can't start kde as a user, and when I start as root, i get the error :
Error - artsmessage
Sound server fatal error:
/tmp/mcop-root is accessible owned by user

Plus, my wallpaper is gone, and the two desktop icons I had, trash and Home, are gone, and I can't right click.

How do I fix this?!?

Thanks!

thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

fixed it. I deleted /mcop-root and rebooted, then restarted x.

I guess it didn't like that chmod

sven · Apprentice Joined: 19 Apr 2002 Posts: 274

Don't drink and KDE!

rac · Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 6:47 am Post subject:

Permissions on /tmp should be 1777 (set the sticky bit). That way people can't mess with one another's files.
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StrCrssd · Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 12:34 am Post subject: Running as root.

Please do NOT run as root. This is a distrubing trend in linux users today. Running as root is NOT safe....at all. Windows has the little "recycle bin" and trivial file permissions. It's easy to fix things when you bork them. Linux is NOT like that.

PLEASE save us all a lot of bad reputation and run as a user. You can su to root as needed in a console.
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thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

Yah, they teach us all that in Linux 101...you HAVE to run as root before you add a user, which is what I was trying to do when my system got borked.

StrCrssd · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 5:49 am Post subject: Cool...

Ok, sorry....I got on a little rant there.

Didn't mean to offend if I did. Of course you have to run as root before you add any additional users/during configuration. I had mis-read your original post and (assumed) that you had a working configuration and then your friend borked it.

Sorry,
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yokem55 · Guru Joined: 18 Apr 2002 Posts: 360 Location: Oregon

The first thing I do after emerge system gets done when I'm setting up gentoo is to emerge superadduser, and use that to set up users. I don't even wait to build the kernel....

helmers · Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 8:13 am Post subject:

Superadduser, eh?

...I only wish that Gentoo could tell us which packages it would be smart to emerge :wink:

Or maybe a meny of choices, that we could choose what we wanted to use the machine for, and it would select packages accordingly.
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thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

StrCrssd: S'ok, no harm done.

As for Superadduser, I wouldn't use it...it really doesn't work well, at least if you plan to use a Gui at all...emerge KDE and use Kuseradd.

thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

Helmers: If it had that, we'd have Mandrake.

dbd · n00b Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 12

thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

When I used superadduser, it just basically made it so I could log on....my shell didn't work correctly, and I couldn't log into KDE from my user.

When I used kuseradd, it made everything perfectly, and had no problems, in or out of a GUI.

Kawada · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2002 8:48 pm Post subject:

thgreatoz · n00b Joined: 31 Oct 2002 Posts: 29

LOL I'll be the first to admit it made my palms sweaty, but it all worked fine after that, so no more worries for me.