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 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
