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Re: [Cooker] Re: KDE4 session hangs if ~/.kde4 is missing

Fabrice Facorat

2008-05-12

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2008/5/12 Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@(protected)>:
> Fabrice Facorat wrote:
>
> > 2008/5/11 Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@(protected)>:
> >> If I remove ~/.kde4 (to get "clean" environment) and attempt to login
> >> into KDE4, I never get as far as splash screen. It appears to have done
> >> something (judging by JDD activity), and ~/.kde4 gets created; on the
> >> second attempt I get to the desktop (after mentioned plasma crash).
> >>
> >> I am not sure in which state ~/.kde4 actually is after I kill X server
> >> in this case.
> >
> > you need to delete others files ....
> > /var/tmp/kde*
> > ~/tmp/k*
> >
>
> I would definitely do it if I had /var/tmp/kde4* or ~/tmp/kde4*. *But* I do
> not.

sorry, it was kdecache.

> {pts/0}% ll -d ~/tmp/k*
> drwx------ 21 bor bor 24432 2008-05-12 20:33 /home/bor/tmp/kde-bor/
> drwx------ 2 bor bor 4496 2008-05-12 20:33 /home/bor/tmp/ksocket-bor/
> {pts/0}% ll -d /var/tmp/kde*
> drwx------ 7 bor bor 296 2008-05-11 20:15 /var/tmp/kdecache-bor/
> drwx------ 2 root root 48 2008-04-26 09:01 /var/tmp/kdecache-root/
> drwx------ 4 test test 216 2008-05-11 21:05 /var/tmp/kdecache-test/
>
> which implies that those directories are shared between KDE3 and KDE4; and
> this means that it is not safe to run KDE3 and KDE4 side by side.

indeed, it takes me 2 days to recover my kde4, and I lost all the
settings i had done previously :(


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