From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HkSFM-00063b-Sq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 05 May 2007 21:56:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l45Lt2i6031327; Sat, 5 May 2007 21:55:02 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.176]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l45Lmc6X022520 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 21:48:39 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so941816pyi for ; Sat, 05 May 2007 14:48:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=jMbtnuIf4q9XkAD2mTL+jKrTLvFTFckOTLOQM665B02qxKVVTs1g7Z5YmeG5lKcbqsnyUf0iHWjqavCoGhasA0iX3S24W7ViEEfOtvooweSteNZZ+1lqCEbpx/Jm6AMcCCRXzs2BA+ja+Gm1TmvOK1+CmnmH/xv21ssWLrvCftM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=a4G9zuYy9Zym2DYf7em6GRlPFkPpqYutslsExU2aRrWAvoK6eZzBXNzIWcY52zVMf18aCB3lD4qK/GGDO/F1mUOBBPZVIDKPtXPzGW2FtuggOdfL3CMeQ4iRgEDNkzAqZbT1MaaitOuo9iUTEuFQfoE1fiV/JHqYLndAGuj7HYc= Received: by 10.65.122.20 with SMTP id z20mr7881572qbm.1178400090129; Sat, 05 May 2007 14:21:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.105? ( [24.36.7.237]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id d2sm3753272qbc.2007.05.05.14.21.28; Sat, 05 May 2007 14:21:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <463CF558.4050200@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 17:21:28 -0400 From: Colleen Beamer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070306) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710 References: <463927F7.7050606@gmail.com> <200705030844.23885.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <200705031359.00223.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <463B675E.70805@megalan.bg> <463C3147.30502@gmail.com> <20070505131216.3c8f138b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070505131216.3c8f138b@hactar.digimed.co.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e084c836-f9ec-4391-999b-2426141d509d X-Archives-Hash: e01ba6e5025ad1c006ec4bb9e15976b2 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 05 May 2007 03:24:55 -0400, Colleen Beamer wrote: > >> Okay, the installation of kde went fine. However, when I'm presented >> with the login screen for my user id, I get the message: >> >> Could not start kstartupconfig. Check your installation. > > I've seen this caused by permissions. Make sure everything in ~/.kde3.5 > is owned by the user Thanks for the tip - another one from the list that I'll file away for future reference. :-) This worked, but the problem was actually my /home/colleen directory. /home is on a separate partition and I actually had to create the colleen directory, which I did as root and ergo, it was owned by root. All is cool now! Regards, Colleen -- Registered Linux User #411143 with the Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list