Desktop settings not recognized after upgrade from FC2 to FC6
Les
hlhowell at pacbell.net
Wed Feb 14 11:31:55 UTC 2007
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 14:48 -0500, Mike Burger wrote:
> I just upgraded from FC2 to FC6, and when I logged in, I got errors
> indicating that it couldn't recognize my Desktop directory, or the
> contents therein.
>
> Any apps I had starting out of my startup folder, any icons that I had on
> my desktop, and a number of links in my toolbar, don't appear on my
> desktop, now.
>
> Here is an ls -l showing my Desktop directory:
>
> drwx------ 3 myid myid 4096 Feb 13 11:55 Desktop
>
> The contents seem to be ok, i.e., the old things exist, but they don't
> show up.
>
> Has anyone else seen this, and what did you do to get around it?
> --
> Mike Burger
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On mine the permissiions are drwxr-xr-x which are different from yours.
The lack of read and execute may be preventing the system from getting
to the setup files.
Regards,
Les H
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