Bug 22590

Summary: Questionable creation of /.kde
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide Reporter: Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael>
Component: kde2libsAssignee: Preston Brown <pbrown>
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Description Michael Schwendt 2000-12-20 18:30:21 UTC 
I'm using the KDE2 packages from Raw Hide with a Red Hat Linux 7.0
installation. Hope this is okay.

When starting kdm, some part of KDE2 creates a directory /.kde in the
filesystem root and puts a few directories and a socket link in there:
//.kde/socket-myhostname.mydomain -> /tmp/ksocket-root/

I doubt that /.kde is the correct place for those files. Since standard
output mentions //.kde/, most likely some HOME path component is missing
there. Owner of the files is root.root.

# rpm -qa | grep "^kde" | sort
kde-i18n-German-2.0.1-1
kde1-compat-1.1.2-5
kde1-compat-devel-1.1.2-5
kdeadmin-2.0.1-2
kdebase-2.0.1-3
kdegraphics-2.0.1-2
kdelibs-2.0.1-1
kdelibs-devel-2.0.1-1
kdelibs-sound-2.0.1-1
kdelibs-sound-devel-2.0.1-1
kdemultimedia-2.0.1-2
kdenetwork-2.0.1-2
kdenetwork-ppp-2.0.1-2
kdepim-2.0-1
kdesupport-2.0.1-1
kdesupport-devel-2.0.1-1
kdetoys-2.0.1-2
kdeutils-2.0.1-1
Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2001-01-14 04:32:20 UTC 
Gone with upgrade to Rawhide's kde 2.0.20010101-1 (incl. XFree86 4.0.2-0.2)
packages.