Hi all guys...i am into a very deep problem so i wish someone can help me out..

Stats: Gentoo 2004.3 stage3, xorg, KDE 3.3.0, fluxbox

How the problem started..

-I was logued in a KDE session as the normal user. Just wanted to change the KDE bin icon, so i went to the nuvola icons theme (i was using that one) folder. And first made a backup of the original icons, then overwrited the old for the news.............then i *try* to restart KDE so i LOGOUT and the FIRST error message come..............i just clicked OK without reading first (winbugs roots...), but id said something about "log" that it couldn't log into a file.

-So once in KDM i realize that everytime i want to loguin, i just get a blank screen and back to to KDM. It doesn't matter if it is a KDE or FluxBox ssesion, and also doesn't matter if i use KDM, GDM or Entrance the user always have this problem.......BUT the root does not suffers this. I can loguin to any session with any Loguin Manager as root.


What i did:...

Read google like a maniac and this forums too. Any result yet. Information i gathered was.... first time was an error with /home/USER/.DCOPserver_magobox__0 and it said also to check that "dcopserver" program was running. Also this message "There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE".
I made some changes to permissions to .ICEauthority and the new error was that "device /home/...*don't remember the rest*" was out of disk space (i still have 7 gigs free). Then frustrated i erased the whole /tmp directory. And got new errors, but i made a backup and replaced it. Now my error is with "xf86OpenConsole"
I also tried making "genmdk.. --no-old" but never worked.
Also tried re-emerging KDE and did't work. Emerged GNOME but that sessions gives me even more errors.


So, i am almost crying to death here....what could be done??
How can i get RIP totally of XORG, KDE, GNOME, Fluxbox and leave JUST the base system to emerge everything again??

REPEAT: this sypmtop is only for USERS, ROOT is inmmune to all this problems.

Any help is really really appreciated!! Thanks in advance.

Wow, seems like quite a problem.
Anyway, I cannot provide much, but as far as the tmp removal thing goes, are you sure you copied it both ways with the '-a' option?
Also, no profane subjects pleease.

First off Also, no profane subjects please. Were all here to help!

The simply way is to delete your ~/.kde directory. Or backup your directory contents. Delete the user, account, and diretory. Recreate the user and restore only stuff you need. Also don't use that theme until corrected.

Brian1
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I had a similar problem on a SuSE install a while back:

Root could login to a GUI but my standard user couldn't

It seemed that some permissions in the users home area had changed somehow.

Suggest that before you delete any files:

Login as root
cd /home

Then for the user in question note down their username and primary group.

chown -R username:groupname USER

the -R option is to set permissions recursively, therefore the directory USER and all sub-directories will have their ownership changed.

Well, first i apologize for the profane subject, but english ain't my native language and that was the best way i found for expressing myself.

MylesCLin: yes, i copied that way, and ensured that every filed was copied.

Brian1: already removed every .* from home directories, even removed completely the user's home but no results..

Disillusionist: already did that too, but i think taht if its a permissions problem, it could be another thing else than home directories.

thanks to everybody, i woud like to keep getting some answers please....

2 things:

1. I'll move this to the Debian forum, it will get the exposure it needs there.

2. Just a reitteration of the above, please refrain from using profanity on the forums.

Thanks!

How about this. When the login manager is up hit ctrl-alt-F1. Then enter as user with issue. type ' init 3 '. Then type ' init 5 ' and see what errors come up. I think I am telling you right. Might need to type ' startx '

Brian1
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