[K12OSN] roots desktop hosed
Timothy Legge
tlegge at rogers.com
Wed Nov 9 23:09:37 UTC 2005
Peter Hartmann wrote:
> Hey all,
> I was working as root and now when I log in roots desktop is gone.
> Nothing happens when I try to launch nautilus from the commandline.
> We're using IceWM by the way. I tried the reset-default-desktop
> script to no avail. Any ideas? I know, I know....don't work as root.
Create a new user.
chown -R root:root /home/newrootuser
cp -r /home/newrootuser/* /root/
If that does not work:
mkdir /home/oldroot
chown -R root:root /home/oldroot
mv /root/* /home/oldroot
cp -r /home/newrootuser/* /root/
mv /home/oldroot /root
chown -R root:root /root
Tim
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