Had this same problem, ksysguard worked stand alone but adding sensors to the applet would prompt a connection dialog.
I found the solution on the gentoo forums a log time ago
Here is the post at gentoo forums by Curtis:
Aha! I found the problem. None of the above solutions worked, so I poked around more and tried removing all sensors from ksysguarddrc (after numerous tries of other things, compiling manually, etc, etc). If I remove the Acpi sensor, (I also had to delete ~/.kde/share/apps/ksysguard and ~/.kde/share/config/ksysguardrc), then everything now works. yay! Did something change in kde 3.4 that would make it not work with ACPI in the 2.6.10 kernel?? grr. Hope this helps someone else!
ryujin
2005 July 7 Thursday 08:22、daivd wolfson さんは書きました:> Thanks for the pointer Tim,>> Tim München wrote:> > daivd wolfson wrote:> >>I'm working on a laptop, and having had it switch itself off for want of> >>a battery monitor I had a look at adding one to the Ksysguard applet,> >>and now can't get it to work at all! The standalone application works> >>fine, but having removed all the monitors, whenever I drag a new sensor> >>to the applet I get a 'connection host - KDE panel' window. This already> >>has the host set to 'localhost', and a series of connection options:> >>ssh, rsh, daemon or custom command. I've tried each of these (but didn't> >>add a command to custom) and each time I get a disconnected symbol in> >>the graph and no info. The sensors tab in the prefernces menu for this> >>non-working graph says there is an error, but gives no more information.> >> > I had the same problem. It seemed that ksysguardd wasn't able to write a> > lockfile to /var/lock, thus weren't able to start.> >> > I "solved" it by making the dir /var/lock world-writeable. If there's a> > better solution, let me know - but this, at least, works.>> I've just given this a go, and still no luck. /var/lock contained only a> subfolder called 'subsys', which contained a numer of files, but none> apparently associted with sysguard. I've given full access to all thes> files/folders and still have the same thing; ksysguard application works> fine, but still no connection on the applet.>> Anyone got any other ideas please?>> Cheers,>> Dave>> PS I've now got a battery monitor from kde-utils-laptop, but now no> system monitor!>> ___________________________________________________> .> Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
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