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brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

[Solved] Suddenly My User Account Seems Destroyed

EDIT: Apparently it was either a random fluke or a permission problem. Even though it showed that bran owned everything in /home/bran I ran chown -R bran:bran /home/bran just to be sure, then just for the hell of it ran sudo chown -vRL bran:bran /home/bran and everything is back as it was before!

I just reinstalled arch lastnight along with kdemod3. I had a few problems but they were because of errors in my installation script, I finally got everything installed, working and customized the way I wanted it to be but I had to go into windows for something so I rebooted but when I tried to login Ksplash hung at the second icon, crashed, and then I got all these errors about mime types and programs not being installed. The only thing that were displayed were my wallpaper, the system tray, clock and the K menu (which only contained find, run, lock session and logout).

I switched to vc1 to see if my user bran owned every in /home/bran which it did

bash-3.2# ls -la /home
drwx------ 25 bran  bran  4096 2009-04-29 16:20 bran
drwx------ 13 bubba bubba 4096 2009-04-29 16:22 bubba

bash-3.2# ls -la /home/bran
total 80
drwx------ 25 bran bran 4096 2009-04-29 16:20 .
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root   16 2009-04-29 16:19 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 bran bran   28 2009-04-29 16:07 .DCOPserver_ra_:0 -> /home/bran/.DCOPserver_ra__0
-rw-r--r--  1 bran bran   49 2009-04-29 16:07 .DCOPserver_ra__0
-rw-------  1 bran bran  181 2009-04-29 16:07 .ICEauthority
-rw-------  1 bran bran    0 2009-04-29 16:20 .Xauthority
drwx------  3 bran bran    8 2009-04-28 21:04 .adobe
-rw-------  1 bran bran 3506 2009-04-29 15:27 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 bran bran   16 2009-01-28 14:30 .bash_profile
-rwxrwxrwx  1 bran bran 1575 2009-04-28 19:24 .bashrc
drwx------  3 bran bran    8 2009-04-28 21:46 .cache
drwxr-xr-x  5 bran bran   32 2009-04-29 11:05 .config
drwx------  3 bran bran    8 2009-04-28 17:14 .dbus
-rw-------  1 bran bran   26 2009-04-28 17:12 .dmrc
drwxr-xr-x  4 bran bran   96 2009-04-28 20:34 .emerald
drwx------  3 bran bran   32 2009-04-29 14:59 .gconf
drwx------  2 bran bran 4096 2009-04-29 15:27 .gconfd
drwx------  2 bran bran    1 2009-04-28 17:14 .gnome2
drwxr-xr-x  2 bran bran    8 2009-04-29 05:44 .icons
drwx------  4 bran bran   56 2009-04-28 19:20 .kde
drwx------  3 bran bran   32 2009-04-28 19:30 .kde4
drwx------  3 bran bran    8 2009-04-28 17:13 .local
drwx------  3 bran bran    8 2009-04-29 11:00 .macromedia
drwxr-xr-x  3 bran bran   16 2009-04-28 17:13 .mcop
drwx------  4 bran bran   16 2009-04-28 17:14 .mozilla
drwxr-xr-x  2 bran bran    8 2009-04-28 21:38 .mplayer
drwxr-xr-x  2 bran bran 4096 2009-04-29 12:51 .qt
-rw-------  1 bran bran  218 2009-04-28 21:36 .recently-used.xbel
drwx------  4 bran bran   16 2009-04-28 21:37 .thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x  3 bran bran    8 2009-04-28 16:44 .thunderbird
drwxr-xr-x  2 bran bran   24 2009-04-29 05:39 .xine
-rw-------  1 bran bran  180 2009-04-28 16:34 .xinitrc
-rw-------  1 bran bran 3137 2009-04-29 16:20 .xsession-errors
drwxr-xr-x  2 bran bran 4096 2009-04-29 12:49 Desktop
-rw-r--r--  1 bran bran  343 2009-04-28 22:03 bypass.kwin
drwxr-xr-x  2 bran bran    1 2009-04-29 11:47 downloaded videos
drwxr-xr-x 19 bran bran 4096 2009-04-28 20:27 downloads
-rw-r--r--  1 bran bran 3404 2009-04-28 17:13 ksplash.kcrash

i restarted kdm and created a new user called 'bubba' via vc1 just to see if it was a problem with my /home/bran directory or a system wide problem and when i logged in using bubba everything worked perfectly. ksplash didnt even crash, which it has for some reason for about the last 2 months even after a completely clean installation.

I am at a complete loss here....

Last edited by brando56894 (2009-04-29 20:46:55)

tkdfighter

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From: Switzerland

Registered: 2009-01-28

Posts: 126

Re: [Solved] Suddenly My User Account Seems Destroyed

Well, you can always try making a new kde configuration. Just move .kde to .kde_backup or something and login again. I would avoid making changes to permissions in your home directory on a large scale. It can mess things up big time (executable flags, ...). But if you only changed the user permissions, it should be alright.

Edit: Dough, I missed the "[Solved]" part

Last edited by tkdfighter (2009-04-30 12:56:38)

Engelbrekt

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Registered: 2007-11-17

Posts: 38

Re: [Solved] Suddenly My User Account Seems Destroyed

I have also been having some problem with ksplash crashing in kdemod3.
Selected a new theme for ksplash and now everything works again :-).

brando56894

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 681

Re: [Solved] Suddenly My User Account Seems Destroyed

come to think of it thats what i did too, except i selected the same theme and hit "test" and it seemed to fix itself. odd...