konqueror help

[sleeper]

Konqueror quit working after I upgraded to Mandrakelinux 10.1. Can anyone help me?javascript:emoticon('')

[dylunio]

Can you give the exact error you get when you try and use konqueror?

[sleeper]

There is no error message, it just acts like it wants to start with a button on the task bar and the hour glass flipping, then it just stops. This is in the user mode. As root, nothing at all happens.

[dylunio]

Can you post any errors you get from typing

konqueror

in the terminal?

dylunio

[jeremy1701]

Try deleting your user specific info, like cache and the what not. Make sure to save your bookmarks. Then create a new profile and run with it.

Jeremy

[sleeper]

Nothing happens when I use the terminal. The cursor just goes to the next line.

[sleeper]

I was able to get konqueror running through the root console. When I started it the following came up:

QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
kbuildsycoca running...

Then when I connected to the internet the following line came up:
konqueror:

WARNING: KGenericFactory: instance requested but no instance name passed to the constructor!

I hope this additional information will help.

[mhearne]

I had this same problem a week ago. I wasted a ton of time searching for lock files and reading the logs. Then, when I backed up and reinstalled, it was still there.

Then I logged in as another user and konqueror worked fine. The .DCOP server files in my home directory were locked. Always keep a dummy user or distant relative in the /home directory.

So I removed them with:
rm -f /home/mhearne/.DCOP*
and konqueror started right up.

I should have logged in as another user in the first place, just to test it. Looking through my own notes, I found that it had happened before, so if you delete the .DCOP files and get a "DCOP server not found" or similar, then reboot and all should be well.

Michael