8 Oct
2011
8 Oct
'11
3:41 p.m.
Thanks for the reply, Nicolas.
On Saturday 08 October 2011 23:04:18 Nicolas Bercher wrote:
Do you have parts of KDE4 installed? Even if your
situation seems more
serious than what it ought to be, I feel that these changes could come from
a bad mix of KDE3 and KDE4 programs. Do you use a pure Lenny install or do
you use other repositories such as testing, unstable, etc. ?
Pure Lenny, except for a couple of Lenny-backports.
Silly questions: are you sure to log in as the
expected user?
Yes. I have it going straight to the desktop without going via logging in.
Did you do
some tricky things with uids, user accounts, /home directories, etc. ?
I removed a large chunk of data from /home, but /home isn't on the dying disk.
Does your ~/.kde folder seems ok, or quite
empty/new/fresh. Can you
recognize anything personnal in there?
Yes. Some desktop backgrounds that I had imported.
(mostly in
~/.kde/share/apps/<any_app_you_use_and_customised>/)
Also, I have had bad adventures while I inadvertently modified /tmp perms:
$ ls -ld /tmp
must mention: "drwxrwxrwxt" and "root root".
It does.
What's the problem with your CMOS battery?
Nothing, I hope. But a dying CMOS battery can sometimes cause strange
problems, and it is cheap (and usually easy) to change it.
But there is no point in worrying about anything else while I know that the
hard drive is flaky. There may well be something else the matter, but I
shall be able better to see the wood for the trees by dealing with things one
at a time and seeing whether each of them works, before carrying on.
Lisi