so, ron, is there any change in te error mesages if you use "su -" instead of "su"? is that the only message, and does kpackage work? does it start at all?
On Monday 03 February 2003 06:24 pm, Ron Stodden wrote: > What is KDE doing all this for when I run kpackage in a terminal? > This situation existed long before my recently-reported system clobbering. > > [root@small ron]# kpackage > _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root > DCOPServer up and running. > kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : > Networking/WWW/Mozilla.mail.desktop > error stat'ing fd 3: Bad file descriptor > > [here kpackage was exited. No entry followed the following prompt] > > [root@small ron]# Mutex destroy failure: Device or resource busy > kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed > kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children. > kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children. > kdeinit: Exit. > > [hang. Here a ^C was necessary]. > > [root@small ron]# > > Re: > _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root > Setting the owner as per above does not stop the message. > > What service is invalid? What said so? *.desktop is not a service. > > What file had a bad file descriptor? According to what? > > What device or resource was busy? Who said so? What was it busy doing? > > What client was killed? > > The information that answers these questions was immediately available > when the message is being prepared and was deliberately omitted. Why? > This is a sick form of agression by the developer against his users. > > In this parlous state, is 9.0 a viable product?
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