Arnie Stender wrote:
> Hi,
>       A while back I tried to compile gaim-1.5.0 and was having some
> problems. With a suggestion from Ken I got it to compile but the way I
> remember it I started getting weird errors that had to do with changing
> my theme. Even the gaim list couldn't help me so I dropped it for some
> time. The other problems I was having with themes seem to have been
> resolved so I figured I would go back and try again to get gaim running.
> I was able to get it compiled and installed (the check seemed to work
> although I never really saw anything that said one way or another that
> things were good or bad) but when I run it the window comes up but when
> I try to IM someone gaim exits with a message that it couldn't create
> mcop directory. strace puts it like this:
> 
> write(2, "can\'t create mcop directory\n", 28can't create mcop directory
> 
> Can someone give me a clue as to what mcop is and how to fix the
> problem? Even strace doesn't tell me where it is trying to create this
> directory. I also saw a number of references to .kde in the output of
> strace. I'm running gnome. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Arnie

Gaim is compiled against QT/KDE.  IIRC, either run it once in KDE, or do
this:

mkdir ~/.kde/socket-name1/

Might be a little more to it, but it's something along those lines.

HTH

-- DJ Lucas

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