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| Thread ID: 60295 | 2005-07-28 00:24:00 | KMail, Clam, oops i broke it! | personthingy (1670) | Press F1 |
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| 376246 | 2005-07-28 00:24:00 | Hello peoples, Now don't laugh, but i thought i'd give Clam a go. I don't know why seeing viri isn't realy an issue in Linux, but i saw a tick box, and i ticked it. Now Kmail can not be started. :waughh: The KDE error says: "KDEInit could not lauch kmail" starting it with a commandline gives: [~]# kmail Segmentation fault This is supposed to be helpful? yes? :p So i figure that either i move the files worth keeping from /home/sweet/home to /home/sweet/new-home and start again, which may have advantages as a clean up is well overdue or I find whatever file says send mail to clam first, and edit accordingly... Of course i have no idea where to look, or what i'm looking for. :groan: All help appreciated! Chris/personthingy :D |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 376247 | 2005-07-28 07:01:00 | OK... the problem is system wide, i've run the debian configeration program thing, done a general update with "apt-get update" and am wondering how to restore Kmail back to its default settings, or remove and reinstall it safely. I'm also considering reformating and giving Mepis a fresh install. Any ideas? :badpc: |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 376248 | 2005-07-28 07:39:00 | IIRC you can rm -rf ~/.kde/apps/share/kmail Or something to that effect :) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 376249 | 2005-07-28 07:45:00 | [~]# su - Password: root@2[~]# rm -rf ~/.kde/apps/share/kmail root@2[~]# still no go.... :badpc: but i have to Mepis disk in front of me, and am ready to "restore all defaults" :D |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 376250 | 2005-07-28 07:50:00 | root@2[~]# rm -rk ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail rm: invalid option -- k Try `rm --help' for more information. root@2[~]# Mepis in CD rom, rebooting now! |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 376251 | 2005-07-28 07:59:00 | Not as root :) ~/ means "My home dir", and if you're root it'll be /root If you're not, then it'll be /home/personthingy bash-2.05b$ ls -la ~/.kde/share/apps/ | grep mail drwx------ 7 user users 4096 Jul 24 22:38 kmail So rm -rf ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail will fix it (As personthingy, not root) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 376252 | 2005-07-28 09:44:00 | o right . . . :blush: O well too late! I'm reformated, rebuilt and back . I love linux, even i can't screw it up for long . :D |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 376253 | 2005-07-28 10:39:00 | I love linux, even i can't screw it up for long. :DDitto, though lord knows I have tried :cool: |
Myth (110) | ||
| 376254 | 2005-07-28 10:45:00 | OK . . . now i'm an annoyed personthingy . i just put reformated "/", everything worked, till it didn't . Same problem now KMail wont start, allthough it did when i first logged in :rolleyes: . Obviously the problem is in /home I've just run rm -rf ~/ . kde/share/apps/kmail as personthingy, but still no go (yet) . I'll log out and back in just to see what happens . |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 376255 | 2005-07-28 11:31:00 | It seems as though running Kmail as /personthingy now calls something that makes a change at root level preventing Kmail from ever running again! It won't even run as root I even rebooted, and Kmail wont run even for root with all new system and settings! Mind you, thats a very good way of stopping a virus dead in its tracks! :p I think i'll just give in for the night. This weekend may see a furthur rebuild of the system, and a new set of users with default settings who will have to pilfer files from the old |
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