Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (189 mails)

["Robert Graf-Waczenski" <rgw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks!

Yesterday, i once again tweaked on the font installations on my Kernel 2.4.20 / SuSE 8.2 box running a recently upgraded KDE 3.3

I did four things:

1.) As root, recompiled & installed freetype 2.1.4 with enabled bytecode interpreter
2.) As root, mounted my windows partition
3.) As non-root, added *all* my windows fonts to OpenOffice by using "spadmin" and accessing the windows partition
4.) As non-root, using the KDE font installer, removed all user-specific fonts and then  also added all windows fonts. (There are
250+ of them, this took some time but seemed to work ok)

Now the following happened (and is reproducible since then): I'm able to log in to KDE as root without unusual problems. But when
trying to log in as the non-root user i was using in 3) and 4) above, the X server does start but *no* KDE splash screen appears.
The disk is busy for a few minutes, still no splash screen. After a few seconds more, i become impatient and kill the X server and
re-login as root, which works ok again.

So, effectively, my non-root account is unusable now.

Some initial ideas:

- I was running freetype with the enabled bytecode interpreter some time already but did not re-supply the fonts. Since the fonts
still looked rather blurry and sub-optimal, i figured that i might have to remove and re-add them, which is what i did yesterday.

- Normally, my windows partition is *not* mounted. I will try to unmount it again this evening and see what happens.

- Before yesterday, i also never used the "spadmin" tool from OpenOffice, maybe this thingy freaked something up.

Can anybody give me a hint as to what of the steps above may have caused the problem or what else i can do to make my account usable
again? (I don't want to wipe the system, of course...)

Thanks in advance,

Robert