Re: I broke X when moving /home
On 20 Sep 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
> *-Kent West <westk@nicanor.acu.edu>
> |
> | I had an NT partition, but decided I could live without it, so I fdisk'd
>
> That's the spirit. :-)
>
> | I tried editing /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and changing the last exec to run
> | another window manager, but apparently I don't know what I'm doing (very
> | likely, since I Don't know what I'm doing) or KDE doesn't look to this
> | line to start itself, which means to me that KDE apparently thinks it's
> | more than just a window manager. (As you can tell, I'm a bit confused
> | here.) So the gist of this paragraph is I tried to change to a different
> | windowmanager to see if the problem was with KDE or something else and I
> | failed to make the change.
>
> I'll try to unconfuse you. The last line in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is
> just used if nothing else is found. The file you want to edit is
> /etc/X11/window-managers. It will execute the first winman it
> finds there. You could also have your own .xsession like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> /usr/X11R6/bin/my_favourite_winman
>
> (This might fail if there is some problem with your home dir)
>
> | After a while of trying to unlock the authority file (or after I press
> | Ctrl-C; I'm not sure which action causes it to go on), X tries to start,
> | but only gets to the dull graphic screen.
> |
> | I rebooted, and deleted /home/westk/.Xauthority. Then I tried starting X
> | again as westk.
> |
> | This time I still get the messages about unlocking the authority file,
> | but when X finally starts it starts up just fine, except that KDE tries
> | to create several directories in westk (desktop, templates, etc). When I
> | shutdown X and then restart it, KDE again tries to create the directories.
> |
> | Any clues as to what I need to do to fix this? Thanks.
>
> Are you sure you mount the partition with you home dir? Put an entry
> in /etc/fstab to do it automatically. You could also check /etc/passwd,
> but it should be OK if /home is mounted.
>
> --
> olet@ifi.uio.no [-: .elOle. :-] olet@debian.org
>
Thanks for the info on window-managers. That helps.
I found and fixed my problem. Apparently the cp command doesn't copy file
permissions. I "chown -R westk .*" and "chown -R westk *"'d the westk
directory and that solved my problems. Thanks!
kent.west@infotech.acu.edu
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