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Okay... the major problems have been fixed. Someone suggested that it might
be a library problem, so I purged the kdelibs3 ..... then reinstalled. And
now I'm typing this on my kmail again! Woohhoo!!!
I had fun with strace, though. I don't have the slightest clue about
interpreting what it says, and maybe one of these days I'll figure it out.
Russell
On Monday 08 April 2002 11:49 am, you wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 22:55, 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.
>
> My favorite friend in times of crisis like this is 'strace'.
>
> I'm not sure, however, if 'strace' is always functionally equivalent
> across all architectures. I'd think that a "mainstream" arch like PPC
> would have a fully-functioning strace though. Do 'man strace' and fool
> around with it and see if it's doing what it's supposed to be doing.
> You'll eventually do something like:
>
> bash$ strace -f -o konq.trace konqueror
>
> That's off the top of my head, so I might have the flags wrong.
>
> Then you look at the trace generated and try to find out where it's
> falling over. In about 90% of the time I'm having mysterious "I type
> the command and the disk churns for a bit and then I get a prompt again
> with no helpful error messages or worse yet, no error messages at all"
> strace will show me where the app is failing and I can determine from
> there what I need to do to fix it.
>
> strace is one of my favorite things about a Linux system and the lack of
> same is one of the things I hate most about having to use a Windows box,
> particularly when applications mysteriously fail, which we know *never*
> happens under Windows....
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Linux -- the OS for the Renaissance Man
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