program launcher going wild

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 03 July 2012 05:29:24 Patrick Asselman did opine:

> 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.

It wouldn't make any difference.

root at coyote:~# ls -l /usr/share/doc/HTML
ls: cannot access /usr/share/doc/HTML: No such file or directory

> What output does the "ls /usr/share/doc" give?
 
Way too long to post to this list.  According to wc -l 1998 items.  None of 
which include any uppercase characters.


> Best regards,
> Patrick Asselman

Thanks Patrick

Cheers, Gene
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