On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 10:00, Damian Gatabria wrote: > On Saturday 01 de March 2003 01:34, James Sparenberg wrote: > > All, > > > > I've suddenly lost kde.... It won't start anything and the only error > > I get is a core dump. It happened when I upgraded to the latest 3.1 > > kdm kcontrol nothing will start. But if I switch (and I did ) to gdm > > ...everything but kde runs. So I removed all of kde... all of qt all > > the dot files ... and still the same thing. No errors just a core > > dump. > > > > Next I tried to start it from a command line (kcontrol) I get possible > > errors. Well they are errors just that it's possible they may indicate > > something. > > > > Xlib: extension "RENDER" missing on display ":0.0". > > DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-12856' to 'kcontrol' > > ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! > > > > Now the Xlib error should indicate that I don't have font aliasing > > working.... ok... it works elsewhere but for the moment ok.... and > > shouldn't stop it. The second one seems to indicate that DCOP doesn't > > work... When I carefully and completely removed kde all libs and qt that > > should have been gone. Then a new install of kdebase should have > > restored it.... > > > > The question is ... any ideas where else to look? I'm not good at core > > dumps so I don't get much out of it.... > > > > James > > Try wiping out all temp directories. A bad/old socket file may > be confusing DCOP.
Let me try and see what happens..... > Damian > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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