No kaffeine for normal user after upgrade [SOLVED]

henri · Last edited by henri on Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:31 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi folks,

after the last upgrade of kaffeine I was not able to start kaffeine as normal user anymore.
When started as root, everything is allright and kaffeine works like expected.
When called as a normal user, who belongs to the groups audio, video and cdrom/cdrw, kaffeine does not produce ANY output at all.
I even called it in verbose mode, but still not one word... ...it exits immediately.

Some ideas?

many thanks in advance,
yours Henri

Insomnium · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

I am having the same issue, after poking around some I *think* it has something to do with dcop and ~/.ICEathority.

If I remove ~/.ICEathority and ~/.DCOPserver_<myhostname>__0 then I can start kaffeine, but this fix goes away when I restart KDE.

Any help would be greatly appreciated

henri · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:11 am Post subject:

Hi Insomnium,

unfortunately your hint didn't work for me.

Please, if someone else reads this and has only a slight idea how to solve this problem, please drop us a line.

Many thanks in advance, yours Henri

Insomnium · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

Just out of curiousity, were you running compiz when this started happening? Mine stoped working right after I quit kaffeine while running compiz.

henri · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:37 am Post subject:

Hi again,

no, I didn't ran compiz, but it may be that I changed the opengl versions before this happened, but as I said: It may be.

Could you finally solve the problem?
Unfortunately I couldn't. Updating to KDE 3.5.5 also didn't change anything.

And still I have no clue what really happened :cry:

Yours Henri

Insomnium · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

Yeah, I upgraded to KDE 3.5.5 and it did nothing for me. I have this issue on two seperate machines and I have no idea what is going on.
It's very frustrating :oops:

Erdie · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 1:26 pm Post subject:

are there any messages when you start it in the console?
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henri · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:52 pm Post subject:

Hi Erdie,

no, none at all! It seams to do absolutely nothing.
And: This is the only KDE-application which behaves like described.

Starting it as root works like it should.

Do you have some hints/ideas?

Many thanks in advance,
yours Henri

Insomnium · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

henri · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:59 am Post subject:

Hi again,

yeessss, it works again!

If you understand german, here's the explanation and solution:
http://www.linux-club.de/viewtopic.php?p=407265

If not, let me explain in a few english words:
It happens when kaffeine was not closed correctly when the kde-session is closed.
The error seems to occur when (at the next kde-session-start) kde tries to re-open all programs left open when the last kde-session was closed.

Solution:
# ps -ef | grep kaffeine
Now kill all instances found.

Now it works again!

Yours Henri

Insomnium · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2006 Posts: 6

cohone · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Mar 2006 Posts: 113

thanks, it helps me too.

nowinter · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 30 Apr 2006 Posts: 90

yeah, thanks Henry. I'd rather say it's a BIG FAT BUG

the most frustrating is that is survives a restart )))))))))))
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