Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 2839
switchdesk will not switch to kde
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:37:50 EDT
I have done a number of fresh installations of RedHat 6.0. Everytime that I run switchdesk to switch to kde, it appears to run successfully. I then exit X. When I startx, however, I receive: kpanel: waiting for windowmanager QKir::readDirEntries : Cannot read the directory: /root/Desktop/Templates ERROR: Template does not exist '/root/Desktop/Templates/' waiting for X server to shut down At this point, I cannot get into X, nor can I run switchdesk to switch back to Gnome. I checked and no Desktop directory is present in /root (although other users have that directory made for them). I copied a copy of another user's Desktop directory into /root and got this result: kpanel: waiting for windowmanager waiting for X server to shut down I have also experimented with other non-root users, and they suffer the same symtoms. Anyway, I don't know how to resolve this problem. Please help. I'm locked out of X now until I can find a work around. Thanks -- good luck.
Am unable to recreate this in the test lab. Have used several systems and been able to switch from Gnome to KDE to AnotherLevel and back to all 3 without any problems. Sounds like there is something else going on with the systems other than the switchdesk tool.