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Re: Very ugly problem after upgrade and unistalling KDE



On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 01:23:50PM -0600, Igor Guerrero wrote:
> With the new user when I run:
> 
> totem media.mp3
> 
> I get that:
> 
> .kde/socket do not exist.
> 
> And totem falls :(
> 
> Maybe the problem is that I used to have KDE installed?

hmmm.... I haven't used totem in a while, but does it let you select
the output driver? if so, maybe you have selected the kde sound
daemons (artsd?), which no longer exists. Try changing that to alsa
or, since you're in gnome, esd.

A


> 
> On 12/21/06, Igor Guerrero <igfgt1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >I'd create a new user and the I got the same problem.
> >
> >On 12/21/06, Kent West <westk@is.acu.edu> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 12/21/06, Igor Guerrero <igfgt1@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > How do I solve the problem?
> >> > >
> >> > >
> >> > > > with my Gnome Desktop, apparently *all* the file associations have
> >> > >
> >> > > > gone...
> >> > > > when I try to open an mp3 I can't, I have to choose "Open with"
> >> > > the
> >> > > > problem
> >> > >
> >> >
> >>
> >> Not being a user of Gnome, I don't know the correct answer, but what I'd
> >> try is logging out of Gnome, renaming all your Gnome-related directories 
> >in
> >> your home directory, and then logging back in. If that solves the 
> >problem,
> >> you're a step closer to knowing which files are the problem. If that does
> >> not solve the problem, you can be fairly confident it's system-wide 
> >rather
> >> than a user-specific problem (but I'd still create a new user and test 
> >with
> >> that user to make absolutely certain).
> >>
> >> Again, this is not a fix necessarily, but it might get you closer to
> >> one.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Kent West
> >> http://kentwest.blogspot.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >--
> >:::lxuser 391715:::
> >http://igordevlog.blogspot.com/
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> :::lxuser 391715:::
> http://igordevlog.blogspot.com/

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