dolphin must be the connector to DBUS for KDE. <br><br>There is a growing dependency on <foo>DM stuff with the current environments. Lots of _stuff_ gets started or is accessible only through them. NetworkManager is flaky without GDM starting things. So there must be a pile of env stuff causing pain.<br>
<br>Next-gen SELinux has support for X environment. By starting with <foo>DM, SELinux will have a firmer grasp on the startup process. I wonder if this is a related artifact...<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Charles Shapiro <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">So I run my Kubuntu 9.10 box kinda weird -- specifically, I disable<br>
the display manager and start X when I need it with the "startx"<br>
script.<br>
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, I've noticed that the device manager<br>
in the toolbar stops working after a few minutes of X uptime. The<br>
symptoms are that the toolbar freezes for a while, but the device<br>
never mounts. I can still easily mount USB mass storage devices from<br>
the command line ("mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sd"), so the trouble<br>
was clearly in KDE. Further investigation showed that the trouble was<br>
related to Dolphin -- when I run dolphin from the command line I get a<br>
looong delay, followed by random kvetching about connecting to some<br>
X-related gizmo:<br>
<br>
<unknown program name>(2557)/: Communication problem with "dolphin" ,<br>
it probably crashed.<br>
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message<br>
did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "<br>
<br>
After this error, dolphin would eventually start.<br>
<br>
So the SOLUTION, to make a long story short, is to make sure that a<br>
dolphin session is always running in KDE. As long as I have a session<br>
up somewhere, everything seems to be copacetic.<br>
<br>
I haven't seen this on google or anywhere else.<br>
<br>
-- CHS<br>
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