OK I''m running slackware 8.0 and I''ve just d/led a client for msn messenger called AMSN. Anyway I got it in rpm format used a program called alien to change it into slackware format installed it using kpackage and somehow it set my usr directory so it could only be read by root. So I logged in as root changed this back and found out everywhere it had installed a file it had changed the directory permissions so only root could open it or read anything in it. So I set all the permission that I could see have changed back to what they should be but now I can''t log in under my normal user name. It''s probably because it can''t execute some program or other when logging in. I''m using KDE as my window manager and login thing. Can anyone tell what I should do to fix this? Or at least tell me where I could find a log file that would tell me what''s going wrong when I try to log in under my normal account?

First off, you should have gotten a Jabber client (AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, ICQ, IRC... Trillian is a modified Jabber client).

More than likely, this AMSN program messed with permissions in /etc, particularly init scripts, or with KDE-specific files either in your ~/.kde directory (though I can''t imagine why it would) or in the global KDE directory (more likely; I forget whether this is /opt/kde, /usr/local/kde or some other location). I wish I could give you more diagnostic information/instructions, but my Linux admin knowledge is currently very rusty. Good luck!

Well I checked the etc directory. It had changed the permissions on that so I put them back right. It still wouldn''t login under my normal account so I used kpackage to see what it had installed where. The one thing I hand''t change the permissions on was /usr/share/doc. Once I''d done this it started working again. I''ve still got a couple of little things gogin wrong but I can sort them out easily enough. Thanks for the help

That''s a messy problem with RPMs...

RPMs are shit

You shouldn''t have gotten the RPM, you should have B*&@#ED the !@#@!# who didn''t release it in any format but rpm off the internet.

- C-Junkie (too lazy to remember password)