'trying to create root kde folder permission denied'

rommel

i just saw this error flying by as kde is and apparently failing to be installed....if your running emerge as root how can it not create the nesssary folder to install kde?

squanto

ALthough I did not watch all 6 hours of KDE being installed on my system, I did notice that some things returned "permission denied" when being emerged. I thought it was wierd as well, but I don't know what to tell you.
KDE works fine for me, 3.0 isn't that much better than 2, but some nice improvements, like only using 100 megs of ram vs kde2 using like 300megs.
Did emerge come back with errors? or is KDE still compiling and installing?

Andrew

rommel · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 3:28 am Post subject:

lol...i am just tired....this is the second install of gentoo for me in as many days....and second kde emerge....first gentoo install was goofed i had no /grub directory in /boot and i staqrted over after kde and x installed wrong...but the flip to it is i have pretty much memorized the install.txt...lol

and its still compiling away....so i will wait and see

Guest · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 4:02 am Post subject:

I also received that error, but KDE3 and X 4.2 are working well anyway.

Arg123

squanto · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 4:16 am Post subject: i know how you feel

I also watched Gentoo install twice, KDE and all, but now I am getting my system set up how I want. Got sound working, but still no luck with openGL...

I got one of those new cool 80mm CD's and burnt Gentoo 1.1a on it, so atleast my fancy new CD gave me some entertainment. hehe

rommel · Posted: Sun Apr 21, 2002 5:15 am Post subject:

well it finished like an hour or more ago....but i had to eat something....i'm getting ready to run xf86config.....but all i ahve right now is an ati radeon 8500.....i am down a gf card till i get the rma replacement....not sure i might just wait since i know absolutly nada about ati even under windows much less in linux...lol

EDIT: well i just configured X to my hardware and launched KDE3 and everything works great....just ahve to set the permissions for sound to be used by non root users adn then download gnome...lol
but first i have to sleep....i love gentoo but my pillow is lookin really good right now

Guest · Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2002 12:53 am Post subject:

That error can be overlooked since those .directories will be created by KDE2/3 when you first run it either by startx or xdm......