Well, I had started to send this to support, but then tried to dig in a little deeper. I only use msn and yahoo, but for both as soon as I send a message, gaim exits. I started gaim from the console with the -d option, and here is the last part of the output:
util: Writing file prefs.xml to directory /home/dj/.gaim conversation: typed... Creating link /home/dj/.kde/socket-name1. can't create mcop directory dns[2765]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dns[2763]: Oops, father has gone, wait for me, wait...! Seems a bit interesting being that I don't have 'kde' installed, but QT and Arts. Someone made a bad assumption somewhere. Doesn't look like an option to disable qt/kde in configure. Anyway, _a_ working solution is to create the directory before running gaim...now why this is required I'm not certain. 'mkdir -p $HOME/.kde/socket-$(hostname)' should do the trick for the book or wiki. Getting to the bottom of the problem, libao was linked against arts. This _might_ explain a little, however, without kdelibs or kdebase, I wouldn't expect to see any software looking for ~/.kde. This is an error someplace! 'Should it be using ~/.qt or ~/.arts?' and 'How _was_ the directory supposed to be created?' are the remaining questions that need to go strait to gaim...I think (libao?). I just wanted my little analysis to be verified and see if anyone else has seen this before I go bugging upstream maintainers. I think I'll remove the directory and install kdelibs next (and step my way up if needs be). I'll need it and base anyway for k3b. Looking at it now, I have a pretty good idea that this will turn out to be an arts error. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
