KDED Failure

[Rob Blomquist]

On Saturday 26 August 2006 02:47, Bill Hartwell wrote:
> I had a system crash with Kontact open, and now whenever I load KDE I
> get a set of three error messages, all of which say that the KDED
> daemon has failed, but no further information. And I can't load a
> backtrace because (according to the backtrace window) the default KDE
> installation in Kubuntu is not set up for debugging.
>
> Where should I look for crap that I need to clean out to get my KDED
> daemon running again? I'd really kind of like to be able to use
> things like the Wallet, rather than having to type my passwords into
> Kontact every time I try to connect to one of my email accounts.

I would start off looking in ~/.kde/share/apps/akregator for a lock file.

It was refusing to start after a crash I had, and I found that to be the 
problem. Akregator does not like to crash nicely.

If you want to backtrace crashes within KDE (its not all that useful except to 
developers) you need to install gdb.

Personally I am not much of a fan of Kontact, and prefer to run without it, so 
all my apps run from the panel.

Rob
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Mountlake Terrace, WA