Re: DCOP problems with kate and konquerer (KDE problem?)
Incoming from Marc Shapiro:
> "s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> wrote:
> >Incoming from Marc Shapiro:
> >
> >>Just yesterday, I started having problems with kate. It will start up,
> >>and then give me errors about not being able to start the DCOP server
> >
> >The last time I complained about something like that, some kde person
> >said I needed to restart kdeinit.
>
> Well, that didn't work. To be sure, I powered the system down and
> rebooted to make sure EVERYTHING was restarted. The problem remained.
> I noticed that one of the error messages said "DCOPServer self-test
> failed" so I figured that maybe it had been corrupted and needed to be
Sometimes, that means a lock file is left lying around from an old
session. Blow away the lock and it regains its sanity. /var/lock/* ?
Alternatively, is there anything in /etc/init.d that you can run to
force some relevant K-ish process to cycle?
> What is DCOP, anyway?
One huge pain in the butt as far as I'm concerned.
> Does anyone have any other ideas on how to solve this? Or should I just
> eliminate ALL of KDE and its apps and save myself a whole lot of disk space!
That's what I did.
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