When I click Application - sound & video - k3b nothing happens it will not open. tried yum install k3b already installed to newest version nothing to do. Can someone tell me how to get K3B to open please. I don't believe I have used k3b since I upgraded. So I am guessing it has not worked since the install.

Thank you Craig

Hello

Open a terminal and type:

You will be able to see the errors that occurred that is preventing it from opening.

Bob

Thank you
This is the out put can you tell me how to fix it. Please
[craig@localhost ~]$ k3b
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/tmp-localhost.localdomain: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain: Permission denied
kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Permission denied
Could not bind to socket '/home/craig/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain/kdeinit__0'

Ok, this is a permissions problem. It appears that the k3b app is owned by root. The easiest way to fix it is to open a terminal, change to root,and type:

You can also, as root, open the folder /usr/bin/k3b, right click on the folder, on the permissions tab, change the owner of the folder to your user name.

You should then be able to open the app.

When, upgrading, k3b sometimes does this, it assigns iteself to root ownership. Don't know why, by its easy to fix.

Bob

thank you for the reply
chown craig /usr/bin/k3b had no effect
/usr/bin/k3b opened the app not able to locate a way to change permissions
please advice
Craig

Did you run the command as root? As I mentioned in my post, you can log in to your desktop as root (only temporarily, don;t do this as a habit), and navigate to the /usr/bin/k3b folder. Right click on it, go to properties, click on the permissions tab, and change the owner of the folder to your user name.

You also need to make sure that /usr/bin/ is in your path. Type (in your normal username):

That is a long listing of the path to your home directory. Make sure you see /usr/bin/ in your path. If you do not see it, then add it to your path.

Bob

Yes sir,
owner craig -Craig last name

Group craig

[craig@localhost ~]$ k3b
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/tmp-localhost.localdomain: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain: Permission denied
trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain: Permission denied
kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Permission denied
Could not bind to socket '/home/craig/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain/kdeinit__0'
[craig@localhost ~]$

still not working

I don't think you want to change the permissions on the actual application (k3b). Almost all applications are owned by root and yet still work fine for normal users.

It seems to me the problem here is the you don't have permissions to write to /home/craig/.kde for whatever reason. This could be because you don't own it, or because you don't have permission to write to it.should tell you who the owner is. If it's you (craig), then do the following.

To correct the permissions (using my .kde directory as a template) try the following in a terminal:That should allow k3b to write to the directory it needs to, and should eliminate the "trying to create local folder /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied" errors.

We'll see if there are any more directories that need chmodding after you've done that

pwc101, thank you for adding that information. I was giving the OP the solution I used from a while back, and it worked for me, but this situation IS different and your solution is the correct one.

trailr8713: Follow the advice of pwc101. The /.kde/share is the source of the problem.

Bob

[craig@localhost ~]$ ls -ld ~/.kde
drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2008-05-23 09:51 /home/craig/.kde
[craig@localhost ~]$ ls -ld ~/.kde/share
ls: cannot access /home/craig/.kde/share: Permission denied
[craig@localhost ~]$ chmod 700 ~/.kde
chmod: changing permissions of `/home/craig/.kde': Operation not permitted
[craig@localhost ~]$ chmod 700 ~/.kde/share
chmod: cannot access `/home/craig/.kde/share': Permission denied

This isn't working either.
Any body else

Craig

If you look at the output of the ls -ld ~/.kde command, your .kde directory is owned by root:root. That's why this isn't working.

To fix it, as root, you need to fix the ownership of the direcory:Then if you try to run k3b again, it should work.

Run this as root (assuming that the username and groupname for the user is 'craig':

The .kde directory is supposed to hold settingfiles for the given user, so it should not be owned by root. Same for all it's contents.

I assume you run Gnome as the Window Manager and K3B as the only KDE application, because your current state of .kde would be a problem for almost all KDE applications.

It's rather surprising how permissions for .kde came to be set to root ownership.

Linux Archive

That's a good point about the group. Check what groups you should chown the directory to by checking the permissions on another directory in your home folder:Look at the output in the 3rd and 4th columns. It may be "craig users", or it may be "craig craig" - it depends on how your distro does things. Amend the chown -R command accordingly.

chown -R craig.users /home/craig/.kde That worked Thank you, you are correct I run Gnome K3B, and google earth are the only 2 programs I have found to do this.
Again Thank you

Just wanted to say thanks. I just did a fresh install of fedora9 and had the same problem. Changing ownership got k3b all fixed up.