Error

bmcog · 01-09-2006, 07:48 PM

Running Fedora Core, and upgrading KDE last month my file manager in super user mode will not allow me to apply changes to all subfolders and their contents.. while under properties and permissions... I did not have this problem until the december upgrade of a few components I thought to be only in the KDE product line... any suggestions would be greatly appreciated as I am clueless.

Darrell

live_dont_exist · 01-09-2006, 11:40 PM

Im not so sure about how KDE works and stuff...but one thing I do know is that to apply changes recursively to a directory ; this is what you do through a shell:-

Code:

[root@arvind root]# mkdir test
[root@arvind root]# cd test
[root@arvind test]# touch a b c
[root@arvind test]# ls
a  b  c
[root@arvind test]# ls -la
total 8
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Jan 10 11:08 .
drwxr-x---   32 root     root         4096 Jan 10 11:08 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan 10 11:08 a
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan 10 11:08 b
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jan 10 11:08 c
[root@arvind test]# cd
[root@arvind root]# chmod -R 777 test
[root@arvind root]# cd test
[root@arvind test]# ls -la
total 8
drwxrwxrwx    2 root     root         4096 Jan 10 11:08 .
drwxr-x---   32 root     root         4096 Jan 10 11:08 ..
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Jan 10 11:08 a
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Jan 10 11:08 b
-rwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            0 Jan 10 11:08 c
[root@arvind test]#

Cheers
Arvind

bmcog · 01-10-2006, 07:48 AM

Thank you, but now it appears I have lost my Filemanager profile all together? when I run rpm --verify kdebase it shows filemanager missing. are they anyway for me to reinstall this file?

Sincerely

live_dont_exist · 01-10-2006, 07:54 AM

Sure no problem...just open up a terminal and type in redhat-config-packages& or system-config-packages& if that doesnt work ...select KDE 20/20 ...and proceed...only be sure that you have the CDs(All 4of them available) ...

kdebase by the way is the entire set of absolutely essential KDE components so I would suggest you switch to runlevel 3(CLI) do:

rpm -e kdebase (Removes existing installation)
rpm -ivh kdebase
May get dependency issues..just keep installing all the packages it asks till kdebase is reinstalled and then come back to runlevel 5(GUI)

Arvind

bmcog · 01-10-2006, 09:29 AM

Thanks, I am not real sure about changing to run level 3? when I ran system-config-packages and deselected the KDE20/20 it pulled up an error box "packages not found" and would not let me update. I then tried to rpm -e kdebase and got a list of dependency errors and it would not let me uninstall it.. I apologize for not understanding more and realize that this is a tremendous learning curve for me... I have reinstalled so many time with new installations I can almost do it blindfolded, but I hate to do it again because everything else is working so good..

what happened was I read a post about having to go in and delete to filemanager profile for certain errors this is when it all started.

Sincerely