Hi,
I recently installed kde 3.1.5. I just rebooted and found to my
dismay that my kmail settings were gone. I have tried to configure
it anew several times, the smtp setting never gets accepted and
the pop-server setting get lost every time I close the program. Has anyone
else had this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?
Thaks, JWC

john connolly wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently installed kde 3.1.5. I just rebooted and found to my
> dismay that my kmail settings were gone. I have tried to configure
> it anew several times, the smtp setting never gets accepted and
> the pop-server setting get lost every time I close the program. Has anyone
> else had this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?
> Thaks, JWC


john;

This is a kde question and being so does not have much to do with slackware.
But anyways:

is ~/.kde writeable? ls -l ~/.kde.

does this happen for settings for other programms? does Knode keep the
settings?

kde saves your kmail settings in ~/.kde/share/config/kmailrc. Make sure your
~/.kde is writeable for users; or kmailrc exists after closing kmail.

john connolly wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently installed kde 3.1.5. I just rebooted and found to my
> dismay that my kmail settings were gone. I have tried to configure
> it anew several times, the smtp setting never gets accepted and
> the pop-server setting get lost every time I close the program. Has anyone
> else had this problem? Any ideas how to fix it?
> Thaks, JWC

Check this stuff:
1) Make sure your home directory of your user belongs to them (in user:group
format, "chown neosadist:users /home/neosadist -Rf" where neosadist is the
user name, and :users is the group you used for that user)
2) Make sure that it's writable, etc, default permissions (i'd try "chmod
1755 /home/neosadist/* -Rf")
3) If after this it keeps doing the wrong thing, try (at a console) "strace
-o /home/neosadist/kmail.log kmail", which will have the strace program
watch what kmail is doing and log it to /home/neosadist/kmail.log (or,
wherever you want the log to go, but please run that command as the user
and NOT as root). Alternately, open a console and just type in "kmail" and
hit enter -- like running the command manually. That might also show some
warning messages.
4) If you keep having these problems, as part of #3, come back on this
newsgroup and post the strace log. That might help us out.

BTW: you upgraded? did you use the slackware-current packages to do this?
If so, tell us what packages by name that you upgraded, etc. You used
"upgradepkg kde*.tgz" or whatever the file name, right? If you used just
"installpkg", you probably have two copies of the same program, in which
case you can check by looking in /var/log/packages (the list of what's
installed). If you see two of the same name program but different
versions, you made a mistake. In that case, download the one you want of
the two, remove both, then installpkg the one that you downloaded.

BTW, irc.freenode.net #slackware is our IRC channel -- you can get help
there in real time as well as here.

--
In a medium in which a News Piece takes a minute and an "In-Depth"
Piece takes two minutes, the Simple will drive out the Complex.
-- Frank Mankiewicz

john connolly <jconnolly@kc.rr.com> wrote:

> I recently installed kde 3.1.5. I just rebooted and found to my
> dismay that my kmail settings were gone. I have tried to
> configure it anew several times, the smtp setting never gets
> accepted and the pop-server setting get lost every time I close
> the program. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas how to
> fix it?

Yep. Instead of using kde and being a windows-wannabe, just get
yourself a copy of the real thing and you won't have silly problems
like this. Nobody takes kde seriously.

cordially, as always,

rm

Roger Maynard sighed and said:

> john connolly <jconnolly@kc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> I recently installed kde 3.1.5. I just rebooted and found to my
>> dismay that my kmail settings were gone. I have tried to
>> configure it anew several times, the smtp setting never gets
>> accepted and the pop-server setting get lost every time I close
>> the program. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas how to
>> fix it?
>
> Yep. Instead of using kde and being a windows-wannabe, just get
> yourself a copy of the real thing and you won't have silly problems
> like this. Nobody takes kde seriously.
>
> cordially, as always,

What do you use?

--
Ian

NeoSadist wrote:
> Check this stuff:
> 1) Make sure your home directory of your user belongs to them (in user:group
> format, "chown neosadist:users /home/neosadist -Rf" where neosadist is the
> user name, and :users is the group you used for that user)
> 2) Make sure that it's writable, etc, default permissions (i'd try "chmod
> 1755 /home/neosadist/* -Rf")

it'd be better to check kmailrc, the directory it is in and all the dirs on
the path to it specifically, rather than chmodding and chowning the entire
home dir; it may break things. you don't swat a fly with a flame-thrower,
even though it may work. ;-) for example, you may not want to set the same
permissions for both directories and regular files; some programs
(e.g. gnupg, ssh) may refuse to work when config files are readable by the
world. more importantly, /home/neosadist/* only list non-hidden (non-dot)
files, and in this case, the problem is most likely with a file or (sub)dir
in ~/.kde, which you would miss this way. you should use 'chmod 1755 -Rf
/home/neosadist' to get the dot-files as well.

--
Joost Kremers joostkremers@yahoo.com
Slackware doesn't have any quirks. Other distros have quirks. Slackware's
just pure Linux.

The Onion Man <IanPegel@netscamybrainspe.net> wrote:
> Roger Maynard sighed and said:

> > john connolly <jconnolly@kc.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I recently installed kde 3.1.5. I just rebooted and found to my
> >> dismay that my kmail settings were gone. I have tried to
> >> configure it anew several times, the smtp setting never gets
> >> accepted and the pop-server setting get lost every time I close
> >> the program. Has anyone else had this problem? Any ideas how to
> >> fix it?
> >
> > Yep. Instead of using kde and being a windows-wannabe, just get
> > yourself a copy of the real thing and you won't have silly problems
> > like this. Nobody takes kde seriously.
> >
> > cordially, as always,

> What do you use?

fvwm95/windowmaker

cordially, as always,

rm