Re: [Sheflug] Now a new silly problem!

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

> Why is it that all the little problems I get seem to be just beyond my
> ability to correct them??  This morning, for some reason I can't
understand,
> my Mandrake 7 box has developed a problem with the KDE desktop.  When I
log
> in as a normal user, everything is fine and the computer behaves as I
would
> expect but, when I try to log in as Root, the KDE desktop fails to display
> any program icons and will not activate any programs. I don't get any
error
> messages on boot up - it just don't work ;o(
> The last thing I did as Root was to ask DrakeConf to look for the ISA
modem
> in the box (which it failed to find) but it still seemed to be working OK
> after that, now I want to install a package and can't get kpackage to run
as
> it needs to be root.  Can anyone offer any suggestions please?

Do a process listing and see if kfm is running - if not, that's your
problem, certainly sounds like it from here. Probably not a base of kfm not
being run though - it'll be being run and bombing out for whatever reason.
Check the error logs, and dump the output of X to a file if you can (drop
down to init 2/3 and start it from the console with a '2>&1 debug.out' or
something).

Cheers,

Alex.


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