On Saturday 26 January 2002 10:10 pm, you wrote: > On Sunday 27 January 2002 01:23, you wrote: > > as I posted earlier in KDE with Cooker and Mdk 8.1 the kde media > > player doesn't work. > > > > It gives a cannot connect error. > > > > Internal Vis > > KCrash: crashing.... crashRecursionCounter = 2 > > KCrash: Application Name = noatun path = <unknown> pid = 2338 > > noatun: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! > > > > > > I went to KDE's message board and they had it documented that this is > > caused from a packaging problem with Mandrake. They claimed that it > > is caused by kdemultimedia not being compiled with the same --prefix > > as kdelibs is compiled. > > kdemultimedia is of course compiled with the same --prefix than kdelibs. > > > So I would assume that it would be a fairly > > simple fix. > > Nope. > > > Just recompiling kdemultimedia with the same --prefix > > as is used on kdelibs that should do it right ? > > If that could fix it would it be possible for someone to remake the > > package ? It probably wouldn't be that bad except that kde > > mediaplayer (noatun) is the default media player in kde. > > Your problem is not a KDE related problem. It is related to something > other (probably a devfs problem) but it is definitively not a KDE > problem (and it is same for 'CPU overload' for arts on i810 based > computers).
Well in Mandrake 8.1 I installed the RedHat RPM kdemultimedia on top of the Mandrake Kdemultimedia rpm and it resolved the problem. This problem I have seen happen on 3 seperate computers running completely different hardware from eachother running Mandrake 8.1 and with cooker.
