Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote on 9/26/20 4:58 PM: > 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 Nope. > 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? No obvious thing changed at all. I was working all morning without a problem. After lunch, I was getting the error. I'll try to remember to look in ~/.xsession-errors next time (it was overwritten when I rebooted today). > > 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. OK, I'll make a note of those things to try next time it happens. Thanks muchly. Doc -- Web: http://enginehousebooks.com/drevans
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