[PLUG] KDE Woes

[E. Rogan Creswick]

With nothing else running, (fresh reboot, or at least fresh login) check
the running processes, sounds like one of the KDE daemons isn't running.

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002 ptkwt at aracnet.com wrote:

> > On Wednesday 07 August 2002 12:59 pm, you wrote:
> > > I have my wife's system set up to use KDE 2.x and lately she's having a lot
> > > of problems with it.  Applications (like Konqueror and Kmail) don't want to
> > > start, but they start in her login, but they start fine for me when I'm
> > > logged into that system.  I suspect that she crashed something that left
> > > some files around,so I deleted the .MCOP* and .DCOP* files that were in her
> > > home directory, but no luck.  I even went into .kde and some of it's
> > > subdirectories and deleted a few things that looked safe to delete (I'm
> > > real careful in there 'cuz she won't be happy if I lose her mail/browser
> > > configurations ;-).... but still no luck, I can't figure out what is
> > > different about her login that's keeping these applications from starting.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> > >
> > > (BTW: What's all this mcop dcop stuff anyway?)
> > >
> > > Phil
> >
> > I use same version of KDE. Recently, I tried to start Galeon and it just gave
> > up.  When I tried it from a console window, it said: "Segmentation Fault".
> > Being an old Windows user, I rebooted and it worked! Who knows?
>
> No, rebooting has no effect.  Like I said, they'll start up fine when I'm logged
> in.  When started from her login, though, if I do it from a command line I get
> something like "can't connect to DCOP server" or some such (I'm not at home to
> try it at the moment).  In the past all I had to do was remove some files in her
> home directory that were named .DCOP* .MCOP* and all was well, but now it's not
> working...
>
> Phil
>
>
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