Re: still broken, need help: DCOP problem
It seems that the root of all my problems with DCOP was due to a theme
written and designed for kde 2.1. If I tried to use the eclipse theme for 2.1
on kde 2.2, then it breaks kde 2.2. So, the answer is use only new themes on
2.2 at this point...
On Thursday 12 July 2001 03:50 pm, James D. Freels wrote:
> I am now back up. It was only necessary to rm /tmp/*, and mv .kde to
> .kdeback. Now I am retrieving what I can from .kdeback.
>
> Thanks for the help....
>
> On Thursday 12 July 2001 12:23 pm, David Bishop wrote:
> > Typical troubleshooting for dcop involved shutting everything re: kde
> > down, then blowing away everything kde related in /tmp, mv'ing .kde to
> > .kdeback and recreating it to see if that helps (if not, just mv it right
> > back), doing a dpkg --purge on the kdebase & kdelibs debs and
> > reinstalling them, and, well, if none of that works, then a fill 'dpkg
> > --list | grep -i kde > kdelist' and then doing a quick shell script to
> > iterate through that and removed/purge everything and then using the same
> > list to apt-get with. If *that* doesn't fix it, well then, you're
> > screwed :-) But I'm pretty sure it'll start back up a few steps before
> > that.....
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > D.A.Bishop
> >
> > On Thursday 12 July 2001 07:49 am, James D. Freels wrote:
> > > I didn't get a response to the last query, so I thought I would try
> > > again.
> > >
> > > I have a current Debian/Woody system. I recently upgraded to
> > > 2.2.0beta1. Things went OK for a day or two, but then I upgraded to new
> > > packages again on 7/10. Then for some reason I do not understand, kde
> > > will not start now.
> > >
> > > The symptom (error messages) are DCOP error messages for essentially
> > > every kde application. It will not even get past the initialization
> > > phase.
> > >
> > > What package supplies DCOP? (kdebase ?) perhaps I should try to
> > > reinstall the kde packages?
> > >
> > > Need some guidance here...
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James D. Freels, P.E._i, Ph.D.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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