47kdepaths-3.3.0 deleted

porcupine_tree · n00b Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

Hello!

I am quite a beginner about these things and I guess, I made a mistake.

Due to another problem I followed someone's advice to remove my 47kdepaths-3.3.0 file and then do an env-update. Stupidly I did not backup the file before deleting it.

Afterwards my kde didnt work properly anymore, which means that it didnt show the kdm-login.screen on startup, but the x.org-login-screen instead, and when I wanted to logout, I only got the options "close session" or "cancel", which means, that I couldn't shutdown or reboot my machine, except from the console.

So I tried to make a new 47kdepaths-3.3.0 - file by copying the code from 46kdepaths-3.4 into it and changing "3.4" to "3.3" everywhere.

So my 47kdepaths-3.3.0 looks like this now:

porcupine_tree · n00b Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

In the meantime I found out, that my 47kdepaths-3.3.0 appears to be correct. But the problem still exists. I still can only start kde when I log into kdm as root.

So I think this might be some permissions - problem, but I still dont know how to solve it.

Has anyone had a similar problem, or does anyone have an idea, what exactly could be wrong?

lpetersen · Posted: Thu Jan 26, 2006 10:00 am Post subject:

Maybe you recently upgraded your KDE, and the session type chosen for root is one that still exists (like "Default"), whereas the session type chosen for your regular user (like, "kde-3.2.3" or something) is no longer valid. Hence, you can login, but only to be thrown out of the (nonexistent) session immediately.

If this is the case, you can easily fix your problem by choosing a valid session type from the Menu in your kdm login screen.

Good luck!

porcupine_tree · n00b Joined: 25 Jan 2006 Posts: 3

Thanks a lot for your reply!

I will try that that as soon as I got my x-server running again, but thats a diferent story...

I will tell here whether it worked.