Thats pretty much what i do as well, I also save the contents of kdisplay folder (in .kde/share/apps I think) which holds any saved colour schemes u have and kdeglobals which is basically the dektop visual stuff - sad but I've got mine just right :) . The weird thing I'm getting is that this prob seems to be slowly becoming more and more cross user/ system wide I think. Dont ask me how. I've got it pretty much back to normal - went in in console and wiped /tmp/* as root, killed all .mcop and dcop, wiped ~/.kde (after many relevant saves - kmail contents worth saving, or kiss your old mail good bye).
It seemed to be behaving itself, but i put a new user on to use blackbox for watching movies as i have a suspicion that the use of blackbox may have put something 'out of sync'. Problem was the mandrake first start wizard turned up (WHY??? its not that helpful really - and about the only thing that gets up my nose about mdk, geting a bit m$ - u will sort out your internet connection now etc. - any ideas how to stop that one anybody?) And just would not let go, crashed the user on the second click whereever it was?? weird Then my partners user started to have trouble with konqueror :( Upshot is I have a system that feels like its going to go t*ts up at any moment, which i hate. On the plus side I want to muck about with the partitions on my system anyway. I just wanted to do it when I put Mdk 8.2 on. Effectively I've spent a good few days trying to discover the root cause of this and after much trawling through news gruops Ican say, it happens to alot of people, a lot of people seem to think that its something to do with kded, DCOP and kdeinit, though none knows exactly what yet or have a specific fix. The best fix at the moment is to do what u suggest. Guess i was just dead unlucky with the Mandrake wizard is all . Never mind. Before anyone thinks I'm just whingeing, I still think mdk8.1 is the best OS out there if u want to get on with stuf and spend as little time as poss configuring stuff, its just a pain that I couldnt figure out or find out a better fix than start kde from scratch, as that realy is a pain - hopefully mdk8.2 will be really realy stable and have supermount back with a kernel without alot of memory issues, that really would be superb. OK my 2 pence worth over with, thanks to all who tried to help, if I get a clearer picture as to what makes this happen I'll post it, and a better solution hopefully :) si -----Original Message----- From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 07:41:20 -0800 (PST) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] konqueror startup problems still... ... Any more ideas truly appreciated otherwise its reinstall time :( > When I've had bizarre/obscure kde problems that I have > been unable to fix, from blackbox (or CLI) I: > > delete ~/.kde (AFTER copying my addressbook.kab and > bookmarks.xml to my home directory), delete all > instances of .DCOP* in my home directory. Delete all > my /tmp entries (as user, just do "rm -rf /tmp/* and > you will delete those things that belong to you), and > I also delete my .mcop file. > > Upon logging back in to KDE, it starts from the > beginning so you have to setup everything again > (theme, colors, fonts, email account, unique kpanel > settings, etc). Copy your bookmarks.xml over the > default konqueror bookmarks.xml. As for the > addressbook.kab, after opening up kmail again, I click > on the addressbook which then goes through the initial > steps of setting up your addressbook.kab. Copy your > saved addressbook.kab over the default/new (I think > it is in .kde/share/kab). > > This has usually cleared up any obscure problems I > might have been having > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > http://sports.yahoo.com > > -- _______________________________________________ Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup 1 cent a minute calls anywhere in the U.S.! http://www.getpennytalk.com/cgi-bin/adforward.cgi?p_key=RG9853KJ&url=http://www.getpennytalk.com
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