k3b won't work outside of kde?

[Justin Mason]

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Nathan Howell writes:
> I just reinstalled k3b, since it's the best option I know of for burning
> audio discs. Unfortunately, it won't run. I get two error dialogs: "Could
> not find mime type application/octet-stream" and "Could not start process
> Unable to create io-slave: klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'file'.". And
> on the console:
> 
> kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 72, expecting version 75 or higher.
> kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
> kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!
> kio (KSycoca): ERROR: No database available!
> kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Found version 72, expecting version 75 or higher.
> kio (KSycoca): WARNING: Outdated database found
> k3b: ERROR: : couldn't create slave : Unable to create io-slave:
> klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'file'.
> k3b:
> k3b: ERROR: (K3bSongManager) Can't open file /home/nathan/.kde/share/apps/k3b/songlist.xml
> KCrash: Application 'k3b' crashing..
> 
> I've googled around a bit, and from what I've found, this is a problem
> (since kde 3.3) when running kde apps outside of kde. I have no intention
> of installing kde and switching into it just to run k3b :-). I've tried
> removing all all kde related files from /tmp and ~/.kde but that did
> nothing. Anything else I can try?

try running "kdeinit"; if I recall correctly, that should start all the
daemons required for KDE apps, without starting a full-blown KDE session
(with panel et al).

- --j.
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