I installed all of kde 3.1.2 (as far as I can tell) from a Gentoo 1.4 LiveCD.
Kde generally works fine, except for the help system.
At startup by clicking the help icon, the kde help center displays:
An error occured while loading help:/khelpcenter/index.html?anchor=welcome:
Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_help'.
Clicking on any item of the help menu brings up a similar message:
An error occured while loading help:/kcontrol/arts/index.html:
Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_help'.
If khelpcenter is started from an xterm, the host xterm displays:
ERROR: ERROR 3: couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Error loading 'kio_help'.
Running khelpcenter under strace, the relevant lines are:
2919 write(5, "\2\2\2\0\316\0\0\0P\0\0\0", 12) = 12
2919 write(5,
"\0\0\0\fkhelpcenter\0\0\0\0\nklauncher\0\0\0\0\nklauncher\0\0\0\0&requestSlave(QString,QString,Q
String)\0\0\0\0t", 90) = 90
2919 write(5,
"\0\0\0\10\0h\0e\0l\0p\377\377\377\377\0\0\0`\0/\0t\0m\0p\0/\0k\0s\0o\0c\0k\0e\0t\0-\0b\0o\0b\0b\
0/\0k\0h\0e\0l\0p\0c\0e\0n\0t\0e\0r\0g\0S\0b\0007\0006\0a\0.\0s\0l\0a\0v\0e\0-\0s\0o\0c\0k\0e\0t",
116) = 116
2919 read(5, "\2\3\0\2j\0\0\0", 8) = 8
2919 read(5, "P\0\0\0", 4) = 4
2919 read(5,
"\0\0\0\nklauncher\0\0\0\0\fkhelpcenter\0\0\0\0\10QString\0\0\0\0<\0\0\0\0\0\0\0004\0E\0r\0r\0o\0r
\0 \0l\0o\0a\0d\0i\0n\0g\0 \0\'\0k\0i\0o\0_\0h\0e\0l\0p\0\'\0.\0\n", 106) = 106
2919 close(15) = 0
Running "ldd /usr/kde/3.1/bin/kioslave" shows nothing missing.
Attempting to run kioslave out of context shows nothing amiss:
> /usr/kde/3.1/bin/kioslave
Usage: kioslave <slave-lib> <protocol> <klauncher-socket> <app-socket>
This program is part of KDE.
Running "ldd /usr/kde/3.1/bin/klauncher" shows nothing missing.
After attempting to run kde help, a socket remains in /tmp:
> ls -l /tmp/ksocket-bobb/
srwxr-xr-x 1 bobb users 0 Sep 30 12:00
klauncheru6x4ea.slave-socket
Booting Redhat9 on the same machine, kde help runs fine. Ldconfig -p shows the same
kio libraries available on RH9
and Gentoo.
Can anyone tell me what's missing or unconfigured?
TIA
Bob Barry
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