program launcher going wild

Patrick Asselman iceblink at seti.nl
Tue Jul 3 08:21:58 UTC 2012


On 2012-07-03 06:16, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
>
 From the error, it looks like you didn't use capital letters.
What output does the "ls /usr/share/doc" give?

Best regards,
Patrick Asselman





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