Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 15:29:48 +0100 From: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KDE 3.1b compiles on 2.2.5, but it doesn't work Message-ID: <34FC13DC.7FDB3CF6@we.lc.ehu.es> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225131244.27909N-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Doug White wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Jose M. Alcaide wrote: > > > BUT, my KDE 3.1b continues to fail at startup. KFM hangs, and I > > see the error messages > > > > QSocketNotifier: Invalid socket specified > > QSocketNotifier: Internal error > > > > whenever I try to start any application from the panel menu. > > Mine works fine, so I have absolutely no idea. > I have discovered some interesting facts about my KDE 3.1b problems: I can run KDE from any account that resides on a local disk, but it fails when it's run from NFS-mounted homedirs (we have a Solaris NFS server for user directories). Then, I thought that the problem could be related to the creation of named UNIX sockets in the NFS-mounted filesystem, so I searched for any socket in the .kde directory built by KDE when started from the local disk, and I found two sockets at ~/.kde/share/apps/kfm, named "kfm_0.0" and "kio_0.0". However, these same files are created as **named pipes** (!?!) when KDE is started from the NFS-mounted home directory. Then I wrote a tiny program that creates a named UNIX socket. I ran it, from both local and NFS-mounted directories, and it created named sockets in both cases without any problem. In summary, I think that the KDE problem is related to the NFS-mounting of the user account, but my little program creates sockets in the remote filesystem, so I don't know what happens. I would like to know if other people running FreeBSD boxes as NFS clients can reproduce this problem with KDE. Any ideas? -- JM ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jose M. Alcaide | mailto:jose@we.lc.ehu.es Universidad del Pais Vasco | http://www.we.lc.ehu.es/~jose Dpto. de Electricidad y Electronica | Facultad de Ciencias - Campus de Lejona | Tel.: +34-4-4647700 x2624 48940 Lejona (Vizcaya) - SPAIN | Fax: +34-4-4858139 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Go ahead... make my day." - H. Callahan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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