On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:50:46 +0000, john gennard wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
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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