Am Fr, 14. September 2007 04:34:44 schrieb David C. Rankin:
Guys,
Strange things are occurring on my 10.2 laptop and I'm pretty sure I'm to blame, but I don't know where to look. Basically Kontact, kaddressbook, etc. are crashing on start while logged in as a normal user, but run just fine as root. Of course, all indications point to a permission problem, but where and of what. I only once faced such an odd behaviour of KDE applications (they will start under root but not under the user) and the reason was that some files in users home where owned by root and not by the user.
In a terminal I did a: find ~ -type f -not -user UserName -exec chown UserName:UserName {} ; Replace UserName with the name of the user. If you want to run the find command for files, directories, sockets, ... remove the '-type f' option: find ~ -not -user UserName -exec chown UserName:UserName {} ; After this the aplications started again as before. Dont know if this is your problem but you may check if there are any files and directories owned by other users than expected in a first run with: find ~ -not -user UserName regards, thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org