Bug-Description: Apps wont start via panel and lost desktop-switching-buttons ================ Package: kpanel ? kfm ? kde ? Version: KDE 1.1 Distribution: DLD 6.01 * "Suddenly" the four buttons for switching to the four desktops are gone, only two "empty" buttons for desktop 1 and 2 remain. They work, though. When clicking onto an icon on the panel the corresponding program wont come up. The hard disk starts doing something for about 2 seconds but that was it. I installed the system only a few weeks ago. Applications can be started via kvt or ALT-F2. * What did I do ? Hmmm ... Nothing that has to do with kde: Bsicaly I used kisdn, netscape, kfm, kmail, kedit. No chown or chmod outside $HOME or within Desktop, .kde or .kderc. * NO succes:renamed ~/.kde, ~/.kderc and ~/Desktop to *.bak. NO success:over-reinstall of all KDE-rpms SOME succes: removed ~/.kde, ~/.kderc and ~/Desktop if automatically re-setup, renamed /opt/kde to /opt/kde.bak and completely reinstalled all rpm packages from oroginal DLD.6.01-CD Rights for kpanel were -rwxr-xr-x root root. No KDE-specific messages in /var/log/messages. No KDE-related mails for root from system No similar problem found on bug report pages at kde.org Similar Symptom: Bugreport #1765 but description of cause is totally different. Now KDE works properly for root. For user tom (belongs to group root and users) the following is to be seen after quiting KDE: ============== Error constructing PF_UNIX domain server socket PID could not get read. QDir::readDirEntries: Cannot read the directory: /home/tom/Desktop/Templates FEHLER: Vorlage existiert nicht '/home/tom/Desktop/Templates/' kpanel: waiting for windowmanager KBackground::KBackground KScreenSaver::KScreenSaver KGeneral::KGeneral PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. kwmsound: Failed connecting the audio server. Please check manually if you can start kaudioserver. waiting for X server to shut down ============== THIS MESSAGE AFTER MANUALLY CREATING ~/Desktop and ~/Desktop/Templates and adding to both chmod g+w: ============== ch64: Font cache: 0 fonts Could not create a shared talk key file.Could not create media connection. PID could not get read. Could not bind to socket Error constructing PF_UNIX domain server socket kpanel: waiting for windowmanager KBackground::KBackground KScreenSaver::KScreenSaver KGeneral::KGeneral PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. ERROR: KFM is not running KFM NOT READY PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. waiting for X server to shut down ============== THIS AFTER cp -R /root/Desktop /home/tom and chown tom * FOR ALL COPIED FILES AND DIRECTORIES ============== Error constructing PF_UNIX domain server socket kpanel: waiting for windowmanager KBackground::KBackground KScreenSaver::KScreenSaver KGeneral::KGeneral PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. ERROR: KFM is not running KFM NOT READY PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. PID could not get read. kwmsound: Failed connecting the audio server. Please check manually if you can start kaudioserver. waiting for X server to shut down ============== -- Current: thomas.hartmann@allgaeu.org http://home.allgaeu.org/thartman Soon: thomas@thomashartmann.de http://www.thomashartmann.de ==============================================