This is a weird one, and affects two machines that I have Quantal installed on.
The machines boot and auto-login as normal, then go through post-login setting up of the session. About halfway into this things just stop working - apps won't launch, kde is generally unresponsive.
Thankfully, yakuake starts up before this happens, so that I can hit F12 and "killall kate". As soon as I do this, I get an error message that says KDE could not start /usr/bin/kate (though that file does exist and works normally after), and all the programs that hadn't launched up to now suddenly appear. Everything then works perfectly until the next login, when I have to stop the kate process again.
A few details that might be relevant:
- kate isn't in the Autostart or startup configuration.
- I've tried adding a "stopkate" script (just !/bin/bash; killall kate) in .kde/Autostart) but this doesn't help.
- I don't use kate much at all, so I've no idea why it would have got stuck in whatever session file KDE is using.
- I've tried manually saving the session, after killing kate, but to no avail.
Any pointers would be much appreciated.
The machines boot and auto-login as normal, then go through post-login setting up of the session. About halfway into this things just stop working - apps won't launch, kde is generally unresponsive.
Thankfully, yakuake starts up before this happens, so that I can hit F12 and "killall kate". As soon as I do this, I get an error message that says KDE could not start /usr/bin/kate (though that file does exist and works normally after), and all the programs that hadn't launched up to now suddenly appear. Everything then works perfectly until the next login, when I have to stop the kate process again.
A few details that might be relevant:
- kate isn't in the Autostart or startup configuration.
- I've tried adding a "stopkate" script (just !/bin/bash; killall kate) in .kde/Autostart) but this doesn't help.
- I don't use kate much at all, so I've no idea why it would have got stuck in whatever session file KDE is using.
- I've tried manually saving the session, after killing kate, but to no avail.
Any pointers would be much appreciated.
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