26 Sep
2020
26 Sep
'20
10:58 p.m.
On Saturday 26 of September 2020 22:54:52 D. R. Evans wrote:
Every few weeks/months I suddenly start to receive the
message in the
subject line when trying to start programs from the quicklauncher, the
TDE main menu or the "Open with..." menu item.
Usually, logging out and back in "solves" the problem. Today it did not,
and I had to reboot.
Is there some less catastrophic way to get things working again when I
start to see this message?
Doc
PS I suspect that some process dies and for some reason TDE doesn't have
a watchdog on it to force it to restart (if that guess is correct, it
sounds like two bugs to me: one that the process can crash, one that TDE
doesn't notice and do something about it).
Hi Doc,
do you observe any common thing that precedes it? For example, to update
Trinity packages during an active session? Or does it happen by accident?
You can examine ~/.xsession-errors to see if there is reported any crash
when it occurs?
As an attempt to resolve the situation without logging out / logging in,
without restarting you can try running /opt/trinity/bin/tdeinit. This will
replace the existing tdeinit with a new one. Next to this, you can
use "dcop tdelauncher MainApplication-interface quit" - this will
terminate tdelauncher and then a new one will be started. In addition, you
can restart the kicker: "dcop kicker kicker restart". I use it when I do
updates of packages during an active session.
Cheers
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Slávek