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From: David Mitchell on 12 Feb 2007 13:21
Hi,

You may remember that I had this problem recently.

It happened today, and I managed to cure it by deleting all of the files
cached by KSysCoca (since KSysCoca was reporting a bad version number).

HTH someone else.

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From: David Mitchell on 12 Feb 2007 13:38
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 18:21:44 +0000, David Mitchell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You may remember that I had this problem recently.
>

Although I've just discovered that it's also disabled the viewing pane in
KMail.

Grrrr!

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From: Tim S on 12 Feb 2007 16:52
David Mitchell wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You may remember that I had this problem recently.
>
> It happened today, and I managed to cure it by deleting all of the files
> cached by KSysCoca (since KSysCoca was reporting a bad version number).
>
> HTH someone else.
>

My stock advice to students at the last place I worked at was:

log in with another WM (or use a VT console)

make a directory called ~/old/

move .dcop* .mcop* .qt* to ~/old/

[upper/lower case as required above - I don't use KDE as a window manager so
I can't remember exactly]

Log into KDE.

Recover anything from ~/old/ if required that doesn't break KDE(!).

Sometimes something gets knackered in the bowels of its dot files and
sometimes its too much trouble to figure it out.

That's why I moved to ICEWM, it writes files when I tell it to, not
randomly. It also doesn't whine when I log in twice simultaneously on two
PCs.

I think KDE is very nice and a good piece of work, but the simplicity of
managing something like ICEWM is preferable to me and it never goes wrong.

HTH too

Cheers

Tim
From: Nix on 19 Feb 2007 12:43
On 12 Feb 2007, David Mitchell uttered the following:
> You may remember that I had this problem recently.
>
> It happened today, and I managed to cure it by deleting all of the files
> cached by KSysCoca (since KSysCoca was reporting a bad version number).

Yeah, on upgrade of KDE you generally do have to zap and recreate the
ksycoca files.

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