Re: How to recover from a system hang that trashed KDE contr…

Fred Wright wrote:

> At 08:06 PM 1/2/05, you wrote:
>
>> Suse 9, KDE, User Session
>>
>> My system hung solid (no intervention session possible) running k3b
>> requiring a system reset to get back in (I know, bad thing to do).
>> After restart, the user session was not restartable because
>> .DCOPserver_linux__0 gets "permission denied" during X startup/login.
>> You can login Mode 3 but you cannot even "ls" the user's Home
>> directory as user without getting the "permission denied" message.
>> Root can issue the "ls" and see the .DCOP....... file by name but
>> cannot "rm" it or copy over it with last week's backup copy. I can
>> see the permissions in the backup copy of the file to see what they
>> should be in the "active" version.
>>
>> Any suggestions of how to change the "active" file permissions or
>> overwrite with the backup copy?
>
>
> My research with google, on kde.org, et-al leads me to believe that
> deleting the .DCOPserver_linux__0 from the user will resolve the
> problem. However, even root gets "permission denied" back from an "ls
> -al" against the user's directory. Can a broken link cause this kind of
> problem? There is supposed to be a link between .DCOPserver_linux__0
> and .DCOPserver_linux_:0 (note the colon) and the ":0" entity is
> missing. The documentation on kde is very lacking in this area and
> except for other folk having the same kind of problem and getting
> suggestions of abandoning the user ID I am not seeing solutions which I
> can get to work.
>
>
>
I don't know about what should or should not be with respect to kde, but
regarding the "permission denied" from root, is it possible that the
file or directory is immutable? Check out the lsattr/chattr commands.

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