kmix

[bpark]

I'm using kde2.2 with kmix2.2.2. For some reason, I always have to launch this twice and on the second time, it will load. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[yowwww]

where are you launching it from?

[Dolda2000]

What if you start it in a terminal?

[bpark]

Same deal. It's almost as if tries to run in the background.

[Dolda2000]

What do you mean? Doesn't it display anything? If so, strace it.

[bpark]

1. What's strace? By the way it sounds, I'm thinking stack trace?
2. When I state that it doesn't display it, the actual kmix applet doens't show up. It's only shows itself on the second time. When I invoke it from the command line for the first time, nothing happens. However, I know it's running since 'ps' gives me the pid for kmix. When I run kmix again, then it shows up on the screen.

[Dolda2000]

strace stands for syscall trace. If you run "strace kmix", it will display all syscalls invoked by kmix and what they return. There is also ltrace, that will display all library calls (to libraries with debugging symbols). strace is generally more useful, but sometimes you will have to use ltrace instead.

[bpark]

What do I do after I use strace?

[Dolda2000]

Well, you watch the output to try and see what goes wrong. Or you could post it here, and I can try to see it for you.

[bpark]

Dolda,

Well, after running 'strace kmix', I don't see any errors at all. As you know, you helped me fix that root X problem earlier and I tried invoking kmix as a root user. When I do that, it pops open right away instead of me having to invoke it twice as a normal user.