> Hi,
> On one account on my OpenSuSE Leap 42.3 system (the main account, of
course),
> I'm getting these messages after the login screen and before the desktop
> appears:
>
> 1)
> > The R14-xdg-update script has been run at least once.
> > The script is not successfully updating.
> > The script will run with each login until corrected.
> > Please contact an administrator or take appropriate administrative action
to
> > correct the problem.
> > The error code is 9.
>
> 2)
> > Some Trinity profile R14 XDG compliance updates failed.
> > Check applications-tdemenuedit.menu for '<filename>kde-' in
> > /var/tmp/kdecache-leslie/r14-xdgupdate-validation-test-9.tct.
>
> 3)
> > The R14-xdg-update script has been run at least once.
> > The script is not successfully updating.
> > The script will run with each login until corrected.
> > Please contact an administrator or take appropriate administrative action
to
> > correct the problem.
> > The error code is 9.
> > Common failures include file and directory permissions.
>
> (These messages are displayed using xmessage, and can't be copied/pasted
> since the desktop isn't active, so the above is my hand-copied version,
which
> has all the words, but not necessarily on the same lines.)
>
> So I looked into the indicated file, and indeed there are a plethora of
lines
> containing <filename>kde-... (see attached). Apparently there are 'file and
> directory permissions' problems /somewhere./ I have looked at the
> permissions of all files in ~/.kde and they look okay (but is owner rw-
> sufficient?) I looked at the r14-xdg-update script, but the code is opaque
> (at least to me). I tried renaming ~/.kde to something else but the problem
> persists; also tried removing socket-dir and tmp-dir, but that doesn't help
> either. The script contains this unhelpful comment:
>
> > # This script should be needed to run only once, but corner cases
> > # and file/directory permissions could cause incomplete updates.
> > #
> > # TODO: How to handle environments where files/directories are locked
> > # administratively or are owned by root and can't be updated.
> > # The nominal validation checks in this script provide some notice
> > # but no direct remedy.
> > #
> > # TODO: How to update profile directories not named $HOME/.trinity and
> $TDEHOME
> > # is not yet declared when running this script.
>
> I'm not at all sure where to look and what to look for beyond this. How
can
> I get past this irritating situation?
>
Hi Leslie
As root, run r14-xdg-update
When it asks you to continue say yes by pressing Y.
Kate
>