photoworks Posted December 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 could you not remove OO.o using MCC and then, reinstall through urpmi/MCC - if you've deleted something critical, then a reinstall will/should just put everything back in place? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I take it that OO.o stands for Open office. org. If this is the case i already tried to do that. I removed the package and installed them again, but the issue is still here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 (edited) Yes it happens with every kde enviroment in the same user.Is /.openoffice a hidden file ? Do i have to log on to root to remove it or can i log on to normal user ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> every /.xxx file is a hidden file. you can see them by activating "show hidden files" in the konqueror menu. you do not need to log in as root for that. please create a new user-account (give it any name you want) and log in. start open office. does it happen there again? if yes, it is a system-bug, if not, it is only a minor issue in your specific user-environment. good luck. Edited December 18, 2004 by arctic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoworks Posted December 18, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 Yes it happens with every kde enviroment in the same user.Is /.openoffice a hidden file ? Do i have to log on to root to remove it or can i log on to normal user ? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> every /.xxx file is a hidden file. you can see them by activating "show hidden files" in the konqueror menu. you do not need to log in as root for that. please create a new user-account (give it any name you want) and log in. start open office. does it happen there again? if yes, it is a system-bug, if not, it is only a minor issue in your specific user-environment. good luck. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> i created another user and i opened open office and it works fine i also tried to delete the /.openoffice folder but it does not solve the issue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 18, 2004 Report Share Posted December 18, 2004 actually i don't really know which config file got borked on your system... maybe the easiest way would be (as told on top of page) shipping all important data to a new user-account and thus getting rid of the old, screwed up account... :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoworks Posted December 19, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 just as i thought: everything works in other environments but you kde-home got killed...bad luck. the easiest way to get everything running again is: log in as root, open a file manager, rename your home folder and create a new one with your previous users name. e.g. rename folder /home/user1 to /home/blahblahblah. now create /home/user1 and assign this folder to user1 in the permissions section. now remove user 1. and now: recreate him (yes, i know it sounds silly, but that saves a lot of permission-fiddling). copy all important data you have in folder /home/blahblahblah to the newly created /home/user1 folder. now log in as normal user and everything should be working again. Hello i tried thyis operation and the problem is still here. I think then since there is no solution, that i will uninstall open office for good and try to get another office application, because i do not want to recreate an other user (that would be a nightnare reciprocating all my usual settings, mails accounts, bookmarks,graphic interface, etc.) I don't think i can copy all my settings into my new account, can i ? :unsure: :unsure: :unsure: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 19, 2004 Report Share Posted December 19, 2004 yes, you can usually get your config-files to the new user account. but beware that you do not copy the openoffice-config files to the new account. ps: one last idea/question: did you already try to uninstall openoffice, then remove all open-office related hidden folders and then reinstalling openoffice? well, anyway, i would set up a completely new user. i have done that quite often (when everything was messed up :P) and it was not that much work. 30 minutes maximum. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
photoworks Posted December 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2004 yes, you can usually get your config-files to the new user account. but beware that you do not copy the openoffice-config files to the new account. ps: one last idea/question: did you already try to uninstall openoffice, then remove all open-office related hidden folders and then reinstalling openoffice? well, anyway, i would set up a completely new user. i have done that quite often (when everything was messed up :P) and it was not that much work. 30 minutes maximum. ;) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Ok, How do you copy all your settings fron one user to another ? I tried to create a new user and then i copied all the files (except anything to do witn openoffice.org) in the new user folder, but when i tried to log on to the new user, i could not do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 21, 2004 Report Share Posted December 21, 2004 have you changed the permissions of the files as root already? you can also add user 2 to user1 in the user-permissions dialogue in the mandrake-control-center. (would be faster, the "lazy user option" :P)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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