[SOLVED] Klipper aborts when I run it, how can I clear old data and start fresh?

[cdupree]

I love me some Klipper, but recently it stopped working. It seemed to be okay until one login when it started aborting (SIGABRT).

I tried starting it from a console window and got this error:

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Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-cdupree" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
KCrash: Application 'klipper' crashing...
ERROR: Communication problem with klipper, it probably crashed.
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Just to see what would happen I changed the owner and group of the directory ...kdecache-cdupree to 0, and tried again. This time I got:

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terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::bad_alloc'
what(): std::bad_alloc
ERROR: Communication problem with klipper, it probably crashed.
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Are there files with Klipper data from previous sessions that I can clear to get rid of this problem?

Or in general, any suggestions? I really, really miss Klipper...

[lmilano]

Re: Klipper aborts when I run it, how can I clear old data and start fresh?

Hi

You can start by moving the cache folder out of the way, from konsole:

sudo mv /var/tmp/kdecache-cdupree /var/tmp/kdecache-cdupree-backup

Now log out and in, that might do. Otherwise, you can open dolphin and go to /home/username/.kde (or just browse Home, and allow to display hidden folders). Once there, either search or browse for anything *klipper*, and simply remove it, it can't hurt. Then, logout and in.

Good luck!

[cdupree]

Re: Klipper aborts when I run it, how can I clear old data and start fresh?

Probably there was a file somewhere with illegal data, because once I did a

find . -name "*klipper*"

and deleted everything that looked relevant, the next reboot fixed it.

Many thanks!!

[lmilano]

Re: Klipper aborts when I run it, how can I clear old data and start fresh?

Excellent, could you please edit the original post and add [SOLVED] to the title? Thanks!