Kate suddenly not working

[Rebel Lion]

On Friday 17 November 2006 03:27, D. R. Evans wrote:
> On 15/11/06, .:M4y3.c0:. <maye.co at gmail.com> wrote:
> > delete this folder
> > /home/YOUR_USER/.kde/share/apps/kate/
> > and this file
> > /home/YOUR_USER/.kde/share/config/katerc
>
> No difference.
>
> The messages make it seem like there's some background KDE process
> that has died and which needs to be restarted. I expecte that logging
> out and in would fix it, but that is very much a last resort on this
> machine.


  Have you tried top from a terminal to check that out. There could be a stray 
lock file floating about  but deleting the two directories should have fixed 
that.