Re: KDE hang with 2.4.18-pre3-ac2

[davidsen@tmr.com (bill davidsen)]

In article <20020117025432.INGX20810.femail29.sdc1.sfba.home.com@there> you write:
| On Wednesday 16 January 2002 12:20 pm, Bill Davidsen wrote:

| > Totally other problem. When my KDE won't launch tasks from the bar, it
| > will still work just fine otherwise, shutdown cleanly, etc. System is not
| > in any way hung, just that clicking the browser or terminal button doesn't
| > start a process, and if I bring up a menu from the bar, and try to start
| > something like moon phase, it also doesn't start.
| 
| Question: did you change your computer's hostname just before this happened?  
| (That can trigger this behavior.  When you change your box's hostname, you 
| have to exit and restart X.  If you ask me, it's a design flaw in X, which 
| thinks it's doing stuff through the network even when it isn't.  KDE isn't 
| helping by cacheing stuff, but it's going for performance...)

  Haven't changed the name this millenium. This is my personal box I use
to monitor systems at a site, and while it's not critical it's
production (which is why I can play). Didn't know that was a problem,
but I'd be unlikely to rename from X if I had to.

  If restarting KDE would have fixed it I would ignore the issue (once),
but no new KDE start did any good until a reboot.
-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.