Re: DCOP problem after Etch with Kde upgrade
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:50:46 +0000, john gennard wrote:
> Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
> >The DCOP server itself is responsible for creating the file that is
> >mentioned in your error message (as far as I know).
> >
> >Something fundamental seems to be wrong with your KDE. With Etch being
> >frozen I would not expect that a dist-upgrade can make a difference, but
> >I would try it nevertheless. You might simply have an inconsistent
> >combination of KDE packages right now, with some old packages still
> >hanging around. (Upgrading at the wrong moment could also cause a
> >situation like this; in such a case another upgrade at a later time
> >might be enough to fix everything.)
> >
> I can't see any old Kde packages hanging around. A dist-upgrade
> has been run (another 30 Mb just covering two days, most accounted
> for by Kde packages!) - as you expected it has made no significant
> difference although there is a slight change in the behaviour of the
> 'frozen' Kde blue screen.
>
> Also, in the Xorg log file there is an error message:-
> "(EE) AIGLX: screen 0 is not DRI capable"
> (I missed this earlier).
I am pretty sure that this does not cause the DCOP problem.
> Now, I intend to upgrade another box to see what happens and also
> to ask on the Kde list in case others have seen this difficulty.
I kind of lost track of this thread; did we already talk about the
permissions of the /tmp directory? They should be like this:
$ ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 16 root root 8192 2007-02-19 18:49 /tmp
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Regards,
Florian
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