Hi Mark, Well well, I think that is the problem because when I tried running from an xterm by tying konqueror& it said something to the effect "cannot find user name for ID 501..."
Thanks for pointing this out, hope someone points out what is going on with the performance issues related to prelinking etc. Arnab > ---------- > From: Mark D'voo[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 10:33 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Strange behaviour of 8.1 > > <<File: message.footer.txt>> > 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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