katapult KDialog problem

Asked by Neil

Hi out there
I am having a problem with what seems to be any program that start K or KD I think they must be KDE programs, first up I get the message make sure dcopserver is running

I asked about this problem the other day I was ask for more info, to run dcopserver in terminal, I did nothing happened the 1st time I did it again and got the message that it was running so I thought it was just on of those things, but I realised that I started it the 1st time I typed it in ( bit slow lol)
so that is all good there I guess. If I try to run katapult again I get this message:

Will not save configuration.
Configuration file "/home/goof/.kde/share/config/katapultrc" not writable.
Configuration file "/home/goof/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals" not writable.
Please contact your system administrator.

I also asked about this question about 2 days ago. I am guessing that the 2 problems are related.

this was the help I received then
sudo chown user:user /home/****/.kde/share/config/katapaultrc

replace user with your name

I used my user name in the spots user:user and in ****
But it then get the message of: No such file or directory

How do I fix this problem?
nad how do I get dcopserver to run at startup
Look forward to your help
Regards Neil
please be kind still learning with longggggg way to go.

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Ralph Janke (txwikinger) said :
#1

Do you use KDE3 or KDE4?

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said :
#2

Hi
Thanks for helping
I don't know, how do I find out?
It is Ubuntu that I have, and I install what I thought were kubuntu add ons from symantec. Is this were I went wrong do I add more or are these programs only for Kubuntu.
Look forward to your reply.
Neil

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Andy Ruddock (andy-ruddock) said :
#3

type

chown -Rc user:user /home/user/.kde*

where "user" is your username.

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said :
#4

Hi
Thanks I gave that a go but I am getting the message of:

chown: cannot access `/home/user/.kde*': No such file or directory

Thanks again
Neil

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Andy Ruddock (andy-ruddock) said :
#5

Did you replace "user" with your own username?
(chown -Rc goof:goof /home/goof/.kde)

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said :
#6

Opps I did forget to but in my user name after home/
Bit of a dope !

ok I tried the next one you gave me ( the correct one)
I got this message.
chown: cannot read directory `/home/goof/.kde': Permission denied
Thanks again
Neil

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Best Andy Ruddock (andy-ruddock) said :
#7

Try :

sudo chown -Rc goof:goof /home/goof/.kde

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said :
#8

Thanks Andy Ruddock, that solved my question.

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Neil (goofandfroggie) said :
#9

WooHoo
That fixed the problem
Thanks Andy

Neil