Re: [SLUG] Help! Major KDE Problems

From: Scott Piper (piper@ij.net)
Date: Mon Apr 08 2002 - 10:43:22 EDT


just a guess, but I would say that a kde network library is either the
wrong version, or possibly corrupted. Try starting kmail or konqueror
in a terminal (instead of clicking on the icon) so you can see the error
messages from the program.

scott

Russell Hires wrote:

>This is what's going on with me...konqueror does not work. Neither does
>kmail. I click on their icons, they look like they're going to start,
>then, nothing. I've tried to remove (via apt-get) both kmail and
>konqueror, even purging their config files, but when I reinstall them,
>they both fail on me.
>
>I'd like to know how to troubleshoot this, first of all, then I'd like
>to know how to fix this.
>
>I look at my ps -A and I see that kmail and konqueror are "on," I just
>don't see them displayed.
>When I do manage to get konqueror to get started, it's only as the file
>manager, and nothing else.
>When I try to go to a web page, it crashes.
>
>How I got here is a mystery. I've had a couple of bad kernel crashes,
>but there's nothing in lost+found
>to recover, except for two or three xml files, but I don't know where
>they are supposed to go. I've
>compared my PowerPC and x86 kde settings, but they seem the same.
>kfmclient seems to be important,
>but there's no manual entry for it, and kfmclient --help isn't all that helpful.
>
>can anyone help?
>
>Russell
>



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