Sl�vek 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
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