I did a silly thing. I run Mandrake 9.2 and have a separate partition for home. On a spare partition I installed Slackware 9.1 and set its home to the above mentioned partition. Then under slack set up a new user with same name/password as the main user in home (hopefully) to access all the settings/data. Trouble is in doing this I seem to have knackered KDE. It stops with a message about the dcop server. Fortunately Gnome still works fine, and seems to pick up the entire KDE desktop icons and menus - that's how I am sending this email. So the question is how to get kde going again, and a corollary, how should I have set up Slackware to be able to access my existing home directory in the first place?
Ian
On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 11:54, IanBell wrote:
I did a silly thing. I run Mandrake 9.2 and have a separate partition for home. On a spare partition I installed Slackware 9.1 and set its home to the above mentioned partition. Then under slack set up a new user with same name/password as the main user in home (hopefully) to access all the settings/data.
Username/password should not matter (well, only to your sanity) -- the important thing is using same uid/gid. Did you?
It stops with a message about the dcop server.
Please report the precise error message, otherwise we can only guess.
When I've had dcop related errors in the past, I found that running one or more of:
rm -fr ~/.ICEauthority rm -fr /tmp/mcop* rm -fr /tmp/kde* rm -fr /tmp/ICE*
outside X sometimes helps.
-- Martijn
Hi Ian
I would have made sure both installs used the same user and group info. This would have entailed copying relevant lines from /etc/groups and /etc/passwd between the two.
Regards, Paul.
On Thursday 08 July 2004 11:54 am, IanBell wrote:
So the question is how to get kde going again, and a corollary, how should I have set up Slackware to be able to access my existing home directory in the first place?
On Thursday 08 Jul 2004 11:08 am, Paul wrote:
Hi Ian
I would have made sure both installs used the same user and group info. This would have entailed copying relevant lines from /etc/groups and /etc/passwd between the two.
Regards, Paul.
Thanks Paul. Very useful.
ian
On Thursday 08 July 2004 11:54 am, IanBell wrote:
So the question is how to get kde going again, and a corollary, how should I have set up Slackware to be able to access my existing home directory in the first place?
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