program launcher going wild

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 03 July 2012 00:11:27 Amedee Van Gasse did opine:

> On 29/06/2012 20:19, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I found a kill switch!
> > 
> > "killall kfmclient", as root, from any handy shell.  That stopped the
> > launching of new konqueror's and in 30 seconds or so the taskbar at
> > the bottom of the screen was all cleaned up.  konqueror itself never
> > showed up, but seems to run ok from a cli.
> > 
> > However!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  If I pull the menu down, goto internet, and
> > try to run konqueror from there, I get a big error window that if
> > copy/paste works, tells me this:
> > 
> > The requested operation could not be completed
> > File or Folder Does Not Exist
> > Details of the Request:
> > URL: file:///usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
> > Protocol: file
> > Date and Time: Friday 29 June 2012 16:12
> > Additional Information: /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html
> > Description:
> > The specified file or folder /usr/share/doc/HTML/index.html does not
> > exist. Possible Causes:
> > You may have encountered a bug in the program.
> > Possible Solutions:
> > Update your software to the latest version. Your distribution should
> > provide tools to update your software.
> > Contact your appropriate computer support system, whether the system
> > administrator, or technical support group for further assistance.
> > 
> > Now, /usr/share/doc/HTML does NOT exist and I didn't delete it.
> 
> In a previous message you told that you have several machines, all
> configured the same.
> Check on those machines if the directory /usr/share/doc/HTML/ should
> exist. Start at the lowest level:
> ls /
> ls /usr
> ls /usr/share
> ls /usr/share/doc
> ls /usr/share/doc/HTML/
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/html: No such file or directory

everything is there up to the html point

gene at coyote:~$ mount
/dev/sda2 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/sda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc 
(rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/gene/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,user=gene)
/dev/sde1 on /media/Maxtor-one-Touch type ext4 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks)
> 
> Also check your mount points with "mount".
> 
> > Now what folks?
> > 
> > launchpad to file a bug?  No clue how that works, I am a ubuntu newbie
> > in that regard.
> > 
> > Cheers, Gene

I am in recovery mode tonight, we've had no power since last Friday 
evening.  See my other post earlier this evening for more boring, sweaty 
details.

Thanks a bunch.

Cheers, Gene
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