The process for the X protocol died unexpectedly

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Friday 03 March 2006 10:16, Troy Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 09:35 -0800, Richard Crawford wrote:
> > Many times while launching KDE on my computer -- Breezy -- I get an error
> > message reading either:
> >
> > "The process for the media protocol died unexpectedly"
> >
> > or
> >
> > "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly"
> >
> > Most of the time this doesn't impact functionality, though if the file
> > protocol dies, then my desktop shortcut to my home:/ directory won't show
> > up.
> >
> > I've Googled this issue but I haven't found any solutions.  Anyone have
> > any ideas?
>
> I see this too, however on Dapper.  The 'system' protocol dies just
> after login and this does impact functionality (i.e. konqueror).  And,
> like you, I have not been able to 'Google' it away.

I have seen this along with the "Multitude of crashes" from kded.

Check the avahi-deamon version against the latest code.  it may be that this 
is the real problem.  I'm not sure why avahi was chosen for dns stuff, but so 
far I"m not liking it at all.

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