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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: kdeinit issue
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-01-22 0:23:52
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On Sunday 21 January 2001 13:34, Stefan Westerfeld wrote:
>    Hi!
>
> There is a problem with the new kdeinit restart-if-running. If ksyscoca is
> rebuilt on first startup, kdeinit_wrapper breaks. This in turn breaks
> kcmarts, which means that artsd will not be started. So if you do:
>
> # rm /tmp/kde-stefan/ksycoca
>
> before login, you will have a broken kdeinit_wrapper:
>
> # kdeinit_wrapper artsd
> connect() failed: : Connection refused
>
> afterwards (and due to that, no sound server). As some distributions wipe
> out /tmp on reboot, for some people this will happen every time they log
> in for the first time.

I am not sure if this is clear:
kdeinit_wrapper doesn't need ksycoca, but does need a fully started kdeinit.

kdeinit only handles requests from kdeinit_wrapper once it is fully started, 
that is in the next line of the startkde script. It does NOT handle requests 
from kdeinit_wrapper while executing any of its command line arguments, 
including kcminit, however it does handle requests made via KLauncher.

So instead of calling kdeinit_wrapper from the init function of kcmarts you 
should call kapp->kdeinitExec().

If you see kdeinit being restarted during startup then that's a bug and needs 
to be solved.

Cheers,
Waldo

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