> On Tuesday 25 September 2001 12:36, you wrote:
> > It was already reported today and it happened to me @home. I started
KDE
> > via startx, up came splash screen, the last thing displayed were
these
> > KDE gears, then splash screen went away and there was nothing more.
In
> > ps I could see seberal kdeinit's, the last two (father and child)
> > waiting on read(5,...) and read(7,...) (from memory, sorry). There
were
> > noting useful in .xsession-errors just usual crap about DCOP server
> > already running, not ELF etc.
> >
> > BTW it took some time. I typed startx and went to make tea. As I
came
> > back I exactly saw splash screen disappearing.
> >
> > As usual, I ask myself why this should start to happen just before
> > release ...
> >
> > -andrej
>
> I don't know if you saw yesterdays mail, someone had the same proble
abd
> is
> really easy to fix.
>
> Just 'rm' .DCOPserver_whatever and
> .DCOPserver_whatever:0 Plus .MCOP-random-seed
>
> and try to login again... enjoy!
Pardon me, but
- it is no fix. Fix is when you know *why* it hangs
- I simply killed all kdeinit's, started again and it worked. So your
"easy fix" has nothing to do with it and is pure coincidence. That is
exactly what is irritating.
- are you going to explain it to every future Mandrake 8.1 user? :-)
-andrej
