Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Tadek wrote: Louiso, It worked!!! Oh well. Almost. In the midst of trying to fix the problem, on advised of other gurus, I first created new user xxx. Initially it had the same behaviour, but after your sticky bit change I login OK and KDE wizard ask me few configuration questions and it runs bea

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread Tadek
Luiso, Yes it works. In addition I had to delete /home/tad/.kderc to make kde work again (kde wizard for new user created previously deleted .kde and recreated .kderc). My second problem (in original posting) of not being able to close kde shell Konsole remains. Thank you again for your help, Ta

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread Tadek
Louiso, It worked!!! Oh well. Almost. In the midst of trying to fix the problem, on advised of other gurus, I first created new user xxx. Initially it had the same behaviour, but after your sticky bit change I login OK and KDE wizard ask me few configuration questions and it runs beatifully. But

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread richard lyons
On Sunday 20 June 2004 09:53, Tadek wrote: [...] > BTW what does icewm do? It`s a slim window manager. Quick to load, easy to configure (using ~/.icewm/* text files), a bit like KDE without all the bits you don`t really need. I got switched to it on one box by mistake when KDE was broken, an

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread Kent West
Tadek wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message Tadek wrote: I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): - after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera for sarge) and adobe reader in this order, I can not x login as ordinary user; I can still X login as a root

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread Luiso Pérez
chmod 1777 /tmp will fixed it. On 20 Jun 2004 06:53:42 -0700, Tadek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Kent, > Thank you for quick reply. My answers are embedded. > Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > Tadek wrote: > > > > >(sorry for double posting but my

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread Tadek
Hi Kent, Thank you for quick reply. My answers are embedded. Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Tadek wrote: > > >(sorry for double posting but my initial post in lists.debian.org was > >rejected since I had to > >subscribe first and after I did 2nd email

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-20 Thread Luiso Pérez
I have this problem. ls -l / |grep tmp Just to let you know that the /tmp should have also the sticky bit, even more if your system is a multiuser system. chmod 1777 /tmp will fixed it. drwxrwxrwt4 root root 4096 2004-06-20 09:02 tmp On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 16:50:15 -0700, Tadek <[E

Re: user x login fails

2004-06-19 Thread Kent West
Tadek wrote: (sorry for double posting but my initial post in lists.debian.org was rejected since I had to subscribe first and after I did 2nd email address was given to me for posting) Dear friends, I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): - after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg

user X login fails

2004-06-19 Thread Tadek
Dear friends, I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): - after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera for sarge) and adobe reader in this order, I can not x login as ordinary user; I can still X login as a root; kde and gnome behave the same. When I enter user name and pa

user x login fails

2004-06-19 Thread Tadek
(sorry for double posting but my initial post in lists.debian.org was rejected since I had to subscribe first and after I did 2nd email address was given to me for posting) Dear friends, I encountered following problem (using debian sarge): - after installing k3b (apt-get), opera (dpkg from opera