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#1 2009-04-23 02:56:42

ShadowKyogre
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Did anyone have their system break by adding a .desktop file to...

Did anyone have their system break by adding a .desktop file to their /.local folder? I did that when I had KDE4 installed on my computer and it completely deleted the .desktop files of the root account...which makes me shudder in fear about putting KDE4.2 back on my computer.

I really love KDE 4.2, but I'm afraid that it might wipe out the .desktop files again...what should I do?


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#2 2009-04-23 03:43:58

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Re: Did anyone have their system break by adding a .desktop file to...

I had my entire rc.conf delete itself once when I enabled the [testing] repo. Boy THAT was hilarious.


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#3 2009-04-23 04:01:06

Allan
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Re: Did anyone have their system break by adding a .desktop file to...

A big "WTF" to both of those problems...

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#4 2009-04-23 08:03:04

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Re: Did anyone have their system break by adding a .desktop file to...

Allan wrote:

A big "WTF" to both of those problems...

+1 (although ext4 regularly wiped out my xorg.conf when X froze and forced a reboot).

It should not be possible for a user owned .desktop file to tamper with root files at all. The flaw would be with your permissions, not kde.

And even then, it's still a big "WTF".

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#5 2009-04-23 15:33:15

ShadowKyogre
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Re: Did anyone have their system break by adding a .desktop file to...

I know... by ~/.local folder was perfectly fine. All I wanted was a .desktop to Quanta Plus, and then kbuildsycoca4 started to go psychotic.


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#6 2009-04-23 16:58:29

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Re: Did anyone have their system break by adding a .desktop file to...

shouldn't you kbuildsycoca4 as user?

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#7 2009-04-24 00:37:33

ShadowKyogre
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Re: Did anyone have their system break by adding a .desktop file to...

I DID, and that's what happened O______o


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