I tried democracyplayer as well, this may help to narrow things down. It opens the gui, takes me through the config dialog (I said "no") to all questions and then dies again. On the second invocation (see below) it skips the setup and dies immediately after completing the drawing of the application window.
% /usr/bin/democracyplayer DTV: Starting up Democracy Player DTV: Version: 0.9.1 DTV: Revision: unknown DTV: Loading preferences... DTV: Showing startup dialog... Setting startupTasksDone to True DTV: Restoring database... Database load slow: 0.105 DTV: Recomputing filters... DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:manualFeed DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:search DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:searchDownloads *** Launching Democracy Downloader Daemon **** DTV: Creating channel tab order DTV: Creating playlist tab order DTV: Spawning Channel Guide... DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:directoryfeed DTV: Spawning auto downloader... DTV: Displaying main frame... Setting VolumeLevel to 1.0 DTV: Starting event loop thread DTV: Finished startup sequence Setting VolumeLevel to 1.0 Creating link /n/fred.kde/socket-turrawan-cj. can't create mcop directory oh. % strace -o /tmp/dp.strace.0 /usr/bin/democracyplayer DTV: Starting up Democracy Player DTV: Version: 0.9.1 DTV: Revision: unknown DTV: Loading preferences... DTV: Restoring database... Database load slow: 0.051 DTV: Recomputing filters... DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:manualFeed DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:search DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:searchDownloads DTV: Creating channel tab order DTV: Creating playlist tab order DTV: Spawning Channel Guide... *** Launching Democracy Downloader Daemon **** DTV: Spawning global feed dtv:directoryfeed DTV: Spawning auto downloader... DTV: Displaying main frame... Setting VolumeLevel to 1.0 DTV: Starting event loop thread DTV: Finished startup sequence DTV: updating the Guide *** Daemon ready *** Setting VolumeLevel to 1.0 Creating link /n/fred/.kde/socket-turrawan-cj. can't create mcop directory downloader: connection closed -- quitting Shutting down downloaders... % tail -20 /tmp/dp.strace.0 close(39) = 0 munmap(0xb0aa5000, 23838) = 0 close(37) = 0 stat64("/n/fred/.kde", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0700, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 uname({sys="Linux", node="turrawan-cj", ...}) = 0 lstat64("/n/fred/.kde/socket-turrawan-cj", 0xbfdf7b70) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) write(2, "can\'t create mcop directory\n", 28) = 28 close(13) = 0 close(12) = 0 write(17, "A", 1) = 1 futex(0x8494c4c, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1 unlink("/tmp/orbit-fred/linc-648c-0-7234d40f8235f") = 0 close(15) = 0 write(20, "L", 1) = 1 futex(0x82101b0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1 futex(0x8211300, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 1 futex(0x8211304, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NULL) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) futex(0x82101b0, FUTEX_WAKE, 1) = 0 munmap(0xb7df0000, 4096) = 0 exit_group(1) = ? Cheers Vince -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]