kbuildsycoca problem?

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 01 December 2006 10:41, Craig White wrote:
[...]
>----
>Rex is your guy - he is after all, the kde-redhat guy.
>
>He told you to...
>
>> # rpm -V redhat-menus qt kdelibs kdebase
>> for starters.
>>
>> what does
>> # echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
>> say?
>
>Which sort of revels this.
>
>As user...
>$ echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
>/etc/kde/xdg:/etc/xdg
>
>while as root...
># echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS
>
># exit
>
Humm, so I set that,  exported it, and ran kbuildsycoca, and magicly its 
all back I think.  Looks good to me anyway, all the stuff I was missing 
seems to be back, the games are now properly sorted etc etc.

So the msg I sent to Rex didn't have the magic twangers clues in it (I 
don't think it did anyway, other than that env var being empty.

It sounds like I should put that sequence into /etc/profile somehow.

>Thus the way kde is implemented, root user doesn't have an
>$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS variable and I am guessing that running kbuildsycoca as
>root is a problem and shouldn't be done but then again, that's just
>collateral since you probably shouldn't be running kde/gui as root
>anyway.

No doubt that's the reasoning, thanks for the cluebat application, Craig.

>Craig

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