On Tuesday 04 February 2003 09:55, Sipos Tibor wrote: > Hi, > > I have two small problems with KDE. The first is related to all KDE > versions I tried - starting it as root is fast, splash screen goes away > really soon. But starting as a normal user, it is much-much slower! > Starting interprocess communication and the second one takes ages. My > hostname is in the hosts file (and using analog modem for network, but > usually my box isn't connected). > > And the second problem is similar, but especially with KDE 3.1 I've > compiled a day ago: it occurs with every user, but a little bit less > frequently with root. When starting for the first time, it works well. > Logging off, or ctrl-backspaceing, starting up again, and ksplash will stay > at the second stage of starting up. KDE will never start, I have to kill > it. And I have to reboot to get an X again. > > Has anybody saw these kind of problems? First one makes KDE almost unusable > for a normal user, the second one simply for everybody... >
Looks like a tempfile/named pipes problem. Make sure to delete all kde-???? directories from /tmp while having no-one using kde. Same goes to the mcop dirs Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.cs.kun.nl/~pauldv
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