this happened to me once, delete all the stuff in the /tmp directory that has your name in it, like kde-username socket-username and then killall -9 kdeinit, restart X and relogin, that worked for me on getting konqueror to run
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 10:55 pm, you wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my home machine (Intel 810 board, 128M RAM, Celeron > Processor) from Mandrake 8.0 to 8.1 last night. I used the download edition > for this upgrade. After the upgrade some things are working as usual fine, > but there seem to be issues with: > > a) Konqueror: I CANNOT start konqueror for the first time after the > upgrade for any user login if I log in to KDE. However, if I log in to > GNOME, ICEWM etc and then start konqueror I can subsequently start > konqueror in KDE. Also Konqueror seems to take longer to start while all > other KDE applications seem much faster in starting. > > b) Desktop Shortcuts/ CDROM: Using the desktop shortcut for > accessing a data CDROM caused my machine to hang. This is a rare occassion > on which I have seen MDK hang! This maybe something again to do with > konqueror or the kernel automount feature, I am not too sure. > > c) Unmounting File Systems: The system failed to unmount /dev/cdrom > when shutting down although this might be a one-off one time problem. > > Overall, 8.1 seems to have made some improvements in look and feel, > although I had hoped that the Object Prelinking etc would have improved > performance a lot, which does not seem to be the case. I have not tested > many of the applications and hope to do so this weekend. > > If anyone has any suggestions on what is happenning with konqueror > and how to get around it, it would be great. > > Thanks, > Arnab -- 11:02pm up 9:09, 2 users, load average: 0.83, 1.14, 0.76
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