can't open any files or directories

Good afternoon to all, my problem is that I can’t access to my files and my directories under my opensuse 11 with KDE4 nether with dauphin or kenqueror. This problem is happening since I upgrade my system… those anyone knows what is the problem? What can I do to solve it?

post contents of
/etc/fstab

How can I access to it’s contain… note that I can’t explore directories or files?

Use the command line (open up konsole) and type

cat /etc/fstab

and post what comes up

You should be able to access your home directory though, since I’m assuming that suse boots fine.

Hope it helps

Well, if your system couldn’t access the files at all, then it wouldn’t be starting up.

I am assuming that you are booting to a complete desktop. If not, you need to let us know exactly what you see and what happens between boot and where you end up.

If you can get to a working desktop, try to open a shell (Konsole). If it won’t launch, press Ctl-Alt-F6 all at the same time. This will take you to another pseudo-terminal where you can log in with your username and password. Once you do so, you can type

ls -l

and see if you get anything back.

If you can open the shell, then type

dolphin

to try to start Dolphin up. If it won’t launch, you will get some error messages that you can post here.

rannane wrote:

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> How can I access to it’s contain… note that I can’t explore
> directories or files?
>
>

Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get to console screen 1 and log in (as yourself)

check your permissions for your home directory

ls -l /home

you should see something like
drwx------ 10 yourname users 2007-08-22 10:01 guest
(depending on your umask) if the first 4 characters aren’t drwx you don’t
have access to your home directory and you need to fix some permissions.

To see fstab to what should be mounted

cat /etc/fstab

To see what is mounted

mount

Alan

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cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHV2080_NW9UT6C264LE-part3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHV2080_NW9UT6C264LE-part5 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHV2080_NW9UT6C264LE-part6 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHV2080_NW9UT6C264LE-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=fr_FR.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHV2080_NW9UT6C264LE-part2 /windows/D ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=fr_FR.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
that is what i ve gote.
by the way i used KDE 3.5 and i do not have the problem with it ( i didn’t know that i have the 3.5 also).

rannane wrote:

<snip>
> /dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_FUJITSU_MHV2080_NW9UT6C264LE-part6 /home
> ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
</snip>

Well /home exists in fstab - does it show up with mount?

Not sure where you are in this - if you’re in KDE open up a konsole session
and try ls or other commands (like less or cat). If you can access your
files with these they’re there and the permissions must be Ok. If you can’t
get to your files from the CLI you’ve got a problem ™.

As others have said you can launch dolphin or konqueror from within konsole
and see if any error messages are produced.

Let’s face it, if you’re running kde you must have access to your home
directory :slight_smile:

Alan


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