From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 12 19:24:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp-2.enteract.com (smtp-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8276437B409 for ; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 19:24:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jtm63@enteract.com) Received: from jamestown.21stcentury.net (24-148-62-220.na.21stcentury.net [24.148.62.220]) by smtp-2.enteract.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56927F8F; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:24:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from jtm@localhost) by jamestown.21stcentury.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f7D2N0J14292; Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:23:00 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jtm63@enteract.com) X-Authentication-Warning: jamestown.21stcentury.net: jtm set sender to jtm63@enteract.com using -f To: Bob Collins Cc: David Leimbach , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DCOPserver and kde 2 References: <20010729161359.A1531@kludge.pineypl> <01072915431001.23557@mutt.home.net> <20010729213919.A3008@kludge.pineypl> From: James McNaughton Date: 12 Aug 2001 21:23:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20010729213919.A3008@kludge.pineypl> Message-ID: <86bslkpukb.fsf@localhost.21stcentury.net> Lines: 33 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bob Collins writes: > > I did not. ;) I use a better OS! I aggree! > > > Try checking the existence of the following: > > /tmp > > drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 1024 Jul 29 09:06 .ICE-unix > > drwx------ 3 dave wheel 512 Jul 29 12:28 kde-dave > > drwx------ 2 dave wheel 1536 Jul 29 15:31 ksocket-dave > > drwx------ 2 dave wheel 512 Jul 29 09:06 mcop-dave > > > > The dave files are for the users named dave :). > > Note the sticky bit on the .ICE-unix directory... this is pretty important :). > > The directory is used to store DCOP socket connections from users. > > > I found I had the directories, however the sticky bit was NOT set. > Once set, I was very eager to try it out, and it fired right up. My > KDE is working again. Thank you very much. > > -Bob > Just to add my experience with KDE 2.x I have never had these problems. My /tmp is setup as a memory file system so power outages make it all go away. This leads me to the conclusion that you could just blow away everything and get KDE back up. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message