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.