Re: Totem xine problem in Debian Etch with KDE.
Hi Carl,
On 12/17/06, Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> wrote:
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:38:19PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
> DOH! I have a self created problem with totem xine that I can't seem
> to sort out. I am running Debian Etch i386 with GNOME, but I tried out
> kxdocker without realizing how dependent it is on KDE. I have since
> uninstalled kxdocker and all of the KDE things, but now totem xine
> crashes every time I start it up. When run from the command line, I
> get the following error:
>
> ""$ totem %U
> Creating link /home/user/.kde/socket-bifrost.
> can't create mcop directory"
>
> How do I solve this? It seems like some sort of simlink issue.
Could be several things. Have you tried just creating ~/.kde? It seems
that totem believes it's in a KDE environment and is wrong.
Yes, I have ~/.kde but I would prefer to get rid of all of the unused
KDE folders, simlinks, etc. if possible, since I no longer am using
any KDE components that I know of.
Also, do a
find ~ -name "*mcop*" -exec ls {} \;
and see if there might be an mcop file owned by (for instance) root that
totem running as you is unable to delete or overwrite.
Here is the result:
$ find ~ -name "*mcop*" -exec ls {} \;
/home/user/.mcoprc
random-seed trader-cache
The idea would first be to reorient totem towards GNOME somehow, wouldn't it?
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Cheers,
Brian
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