The 03.01.05 at 23:44, Ralph Sanford wrote:
Something similar to this happened to me. It appeared the install failed to set the correct settings for the partitions in the fstab file: /opt was mounted "noexec". Check if this is you case issuing command "mount", some needed partition could be mounted that way.
Just checked.
The computer in question does not have a separate partition for /opt (one large / partition and a /home). The permissions listed for /opt, the sub-folders of /opt and the files related to kdm and kdeinit are all owned by root at rwxr-xr-x, so that looks acceptable.
Then what I said doesn't apply to you :-)
In fstab the / partition is set at "defaults 1 1". Is that right?
Yes.
Or actually if there was a problem mounting the /opt partition, then it should not be possible to load KDE and the other desktop environments by using GDM which is the current workaround.
Well, in my case Yast had set every partition except "/" as "defaults,noexec", so that as the kde and gnome programs, that reside somewhere under "/opt" could not be executed, even having otherwise the correct permissions. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson