On Mon, 2006-11-20 at 21:06 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > Personally I'm quite happy to be using FC2 most of the time, but after updates > for FC5 I can no longer access my home directory. Double click on it, a > couple of mouse pointer bounces, and then it craps out. Nothing. Zilch. > > Incidentally Konqueror behaves in the same way, but I can open Konsole, And > Kmail with no problems. > > I had this situation last night, then rebooted this FC5 install, and then the > home directory opened, but today, no such luck. > > Apart from this KDE seems to be working ok. I can watch TV on it, Gftp opens > ok, and the Superuser filemanager works ok. It appears to be a problem with > accessing the "home" directory, and "konqueror". > > There is a ....sycoca command, but can't remember the syntax, or whether it > will fix this problem. Anyone one give me the full command for KDE? It may > work or not work, and there are menu items that were there before, and now > missing. SELinux is not enabled. > > Personally I use FC2 on both machines, even though they are no longer > supported from Fedora Legacy. Apart from them being slow to boot, there are > no problems. Even FC1 still works ok, but I can't say the same for FC3, and > FC5. > > I'm not trying to start any flames here, but from my personal viewpoint FC is > getting worse, rather than better. > > All I want at the moment is to get access to my home directory on FC5, which > was accessable before the last lot of updates. ---- I'm gathering that you are using the 'same' home directory for the same user whether booting from FC-2 or FC-5 That's gonna cause a bunch of issues with: - KDE - GNOME - SELinux even if you turn SELinux off in FC-5 and reboot, the versions of KDE & GNOME are much newer in FC-5 than FC-2 and will likely cause a bunch of problems if you try to use the same settings. Suggest that you go into home directory and move mv ~/.gnome ~/.gnome-bak mv ~/.gconf ~/.gconf-bak mv ~/.gconfd ~/.gconfd-bak mv ~/.kde ~/.kde-bak and see if things don't work better. You probably will want to copy ***some*** of the application settings back in from the the -bak folders that you created into the new folders created upon login/usage. Craig
