On Friday 28 February 2003 12:29 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 28 February 2003 11:32 am, Daniel Anderson wrote: > > Hi, > > I installed KDE3.1 from the mandrakeclub test site. Looks good and is > > fast, but I have no desktop icons. Error message is "Could not start > > process Unable to create io-slave Too many open files". Also konqueror > > crashes on startup. I didn't have any error messages on install. Already > > checked the archives, but found no solution. Any ideas? > > When I run into something like this with KDE, I have found that the easiest > way to correct it is to delete all KDE-based files/directories in my home > directory. First, I save my kmail address book and my bookmarks.xml file > by moving/copying them to my home directory. Then I completely delete > .mcop (dir), .DCOP* (files), and .kde (dir), and restart into KDE. It is > easiest/cleanest to do this from somewhere else: failsafe terminal, > blackbox, gnome, whatever...just not from within KDE. You then logout of > your current session and relogin to KDE. Normally, all is well at this > point. I then move my kmail addressbook and bookmarks.xml back to their > normal location, replacing the default files installed by KDE upon first > startup. > > I have found it virtually impossible to find THE file or link that is > screwing up KDE in circumstances such as yours. > > praedor > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+X5x7wDUPEkSvRHERAg7TAJ0aQ4jFUYk9+7MKjsDAAiHczEd3dACgw7w3 > +zBxRkiGmEbPDB/KGKDNFmU= > =6Ssd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Thanks Praedor, that fixed it. Dan -- 1:40pm up 1 day, 19:41, 2 users, load average: 0.02, 0.04, 0.02
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