Incoming from Marc Shapiro: > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
