Re: /root/.kde folder missing. What to do now?
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:18:31 +0200
Benedek Frank <linux@celifornia.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On my laptop, every 30th reboot, the fsck program runs and checks the
> files on /dev/hda. At this time, when I booted, there were errors,
> like File duplicates. Something like that. It went into fixing it,
> but couldnt, so it asked for root pass, and I ran again fsck. It
> found a lot of duplicates, or some similar errors, that I didnt
> memorize, as I thought it was irrelevant. Now, when I rebooted, it
> all went fine, but my system time was all wrong. This is all in KDE.
> When I right click the time, and choose Adjust time and date, it will
> prompt for root pass again. After this, an error comes up
>
> "Configuration file "/root/.kde/share/config/kcmshellrc" not writable.
> Configuration file "/root/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals" not writable.
> Please contact your system administrator."
>
> When I check the /root/.kde folder is missing as it is. What should I
> do to replace it? I tried to log in to KDE as root, hoping it would
> recreate it, but it seems KDE wont let me log in as root.
>
> What should I do?
>
> Thanks
>
> Bence
>
The best thing is not to log into KDE as root at all.
You'd better log in as a 'normal' user and do what ever you want to do
as root on an xterm with 'su'.
KDE's system management tools _can_ (I don't say, they should be run at
all) be run suid root from a user account with the superuser password.
Cheers,
Thomas
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