Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (163 mails)

["IT-Support @ AStA TU Darmstadt" <it-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alvin wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 09:13, IT-Support @ AStA TU Darmstadt wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a serious problem:
> >
> > After an upgrade from SuSE 9.0 to openSuSE 10.0 root can't log in any
> > more in KDE!
> >
> > I get the message: "Could not start kstartupconfig"
> > and the login aborts.
> >
> > Normal users don't have this problem and shell-login for root still
> > works...
> >
> > Can someone help me please?
>
> This is just a shot in the dark, but log in as root in a console 
> (CTRL+ALT+F1). Then rename /root/.kde to /root/.kde_old
>
> Then switch back to X (CTRL+ALT+F7) and log in as root. KDE will be forced to 
> recreate the .kde directory.
>
> You will loose your KDE settings as root, but they should be easily enough to 
> recover/redo.
>
> If there is something missing in the new .kde directory, you can go into 
> the .kde_old to get it back.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Alvin

Unfortunatly it didn't work!

Someonelse any idea?

Thanks!

Ivan