[PLUG] KDE Woes

E. Rogan Creswick creswick at cs.orst.edu
Wed Aug 7 21:20:11 UTC 2002


Don't delete them as root either...
rm -rf .*
is a _bad_ command when it comes to the ../ directory.
(try ls .* in your home dir as any user, and notice that it lists ../)

-Rogan


> Just becareful when you backup those files.  You don't accidentally want
> to add ./ and ../ to your backup.
>
> HTH,
> Jason
>
> On Wed, 7 Aug 2002 ptkwt at aracnet.com wrote:
>
> >
> > I have my wife's system set up to use KDE 2.x and lately she's having a lot of
> > problems with it.  Applications (like Konqueror and Kmail) don't want to start,
> > but they start in her login, but they start fine for me when I'm logged into
> > that system.  I suspect that she crashed something that left some files
> > around,so I deleted the .MCOP* and .DCOP* files that were in her home directory,
> > but no luck.  I even went into .kde and some of it's subdirectories and deleted
> > a few things that looked safe to delete (I'm real careful in there 'cuz she
> > won't be happy if I lose her mail/browser configurations ;-).... but still no
> > luck, I can't figure out what is different about her login that's keeping these
> > applications from starting.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > (BTW: What's all this mcop dcop stuff anyway?)
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
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