On Wednesday 2008 December 31 13:40:24 Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
2008/12/31 nordi <nordi@kabelmail.de>:
I agree that reinstalling will not help. But he may not have to reconfigure everything. My ~/.kde/config has ~450 files, and one of those files is probably causing the trouble that the Hylton has. Using binary search and assuming that copying+starting KDE+shutting down KDE can be done in 1 minute, it would take approx. 9 minutes to single out the config file that is triggering this.
I have had a look on the troublesome machine at the ~./kde directory and there are a few sub directories in there but nothing mentioning config or profile. Should I just rename the ~./kde directory using the root user to ~./kde.2008-12-31? I guess then a login with the troubled user would recreate a new ~./kde directory? Then I need to reconfigure a few of the apps?
Did you spell the names "~./kde" or "~/.kde"? There's a sizeable difference between the two, and you want "~/.kde" not "~./kde".
Sorry Nordi the 'using binary search' concept flew over my head.
"Binary search" to find problematic files in .kde: 0. Stop KDE. 1. Move 1/2 of the files out of the .kde directory. 2. Start KDE and see if the problem exists. If so it must be with the remaining files. If not, it must be with the moved files. 3. Stop KDE. 4a. If it is a problem with the remaining files: If more than one file remains, goto 1. If only one file remains, it is your problem. 4b. If it is a problem with the moved files, move the remaining files out of the .kde directory and put back the files you moved last time you were at 1. It is now a problem with the remaining files. 5. (optional) Start KDE to confirm the problem exists. If not, the problem is caused by the interaction between two (or more) files--one is one half one in the other--which is bad; you'll need a more sophisticated strategy. 6. Stop KDE, if it is running. 7. goto 4a. Each time you get to back to step 1, you'll verified that 1/2 of the files are good. For 2 files it only takes 1 visit to step 1 to find the problem file. For 4 files it only takes 2 visits to step 1 to find the problems file. For 513-1024 files it only takes 10 visits to step 1. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/