Re: [gentoo-user] Beep holding Shift

[Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>]

David Corbin wrote:
> > $ grep kde /var/lib/portage/world | sort
>
> When I get that, all I get is:
> kde-base/kde

Okay, no problem, you have a full KDE install, not a series of split 
ebuilds.

> Ah!  I see what's happened to me (at least in part).  When I run
> the control center, it prompts me for the root password,

That is strange, starting the Control Center shouldn't ask for the 
root password.  Only under System Administration most sections have 
an Administrator Mode button, needed when one wants to change 
anything there.  Then it asks for the root password.  All the rest 
should be changeable as your normal user.

Do you still have your ~/.kde3.3 dir lying around?  If so, you may 
want to tar it up somewhere safe, then delete the dir, and restart 
KDE, just to be sure.  That probably won't help anything, so then 
log out of KDE, move ~/.kde3.4 to a different name for the moment, 
clean all KDE stuff out of /tmp, and then relogin to KDE.  If that 
brings things back to normal, you may try diffing the old and 
new .kde3.4 dirs.  If it doesn't help, restore your original .kde3.4 
dir to get all your settings back.

Benno
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