kaffeine starts only from root account

Hi, I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2, Trying to start kaffeine from any user
account fails without error message, but can be started from root account.
I checked permission bits, but cannot find anything that might be the reason.
Any idea ???

robert.zeller@robert-zeller.org wrote:

> Hi, I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2, Trying to start kaffeine from any user
> account fails without error message, but can be started from root account.
> I checked permission bits, but cannot find anything that might be the
> reason. Any idea ???

Open console as normal user, type
kaffeine
and look on error messages. Post them here.

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Robert,

remove your
~/.kde/share/config/kaffeinerc
and
~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine

Uwe

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> robert.zeller@robert-zeller.org wrote:
>
> > Hi, I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2, Trying to start kaffeine from any user
> > account fails without error message, but can be started from root account.
> > I checked permission bits, but cannot find anything that might be the
> > reason. Any idea ???
>
> Open console as normal user, type
> kaffeine
> and look on error messages. Post them here.
>
> --
> Regards, Rajko.
> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal
Sorry, I did that, there are NO error messages, when starting kaffeine as
a normal user from the console. I just get the console prompt back and
nothing happens.

> Robert,
>
> remove your
> ~/.kde/share/config/kaffeinerc
> and
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine
>
> Uwe
>
> --
> Novell Support Connection Volunteer SysOp
> Please don't send me support related e-mail unless I ask you to do so.

> Robert,
>
> remove your
> ~/.kde/share/config/kaffeinerc
> and
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine
>
> Uwe
>
> --
> Novell Support Connection Volunteer SysOp
> Please don't send me support related e-mail unless I ask you to do so.
Uwe,

I tried that, but it didn't work either; also I tried copying the
kaffeinerc and kaffeine settings from the root account to my respective
directories; same behavior as before: kaffeine simply does not start from
my user account. no error messages whatsoever.
I encounter this strange behavior of kaffeine on two different Linux systems.

Robert

Robert

> Robert,
>
> remove your
> ~/.kde/share/config/kaffeinerc
> and
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine
>
> Uwe
>
> --
> Novell Support Connection Volunteer SysOp
> Please don't send me support related e-mail unless I ask you to do so.

Uwe,

I finally got kaffeine running from my user account, though I don't
understand what the clue is: when setting the DISPLAY variable to something
like 0. :0. :0.0 kaffeine does not start; when however setting it to e.g.
localhost:0. kaffeine starts from the user account. So for some reason,
that I don't know, kaffeine is not able to connect to the kde display,
unless the DISPLAY variable is set explicitly to localhost:0. or
machinename:0. Of course - as a workaround I could explicitly set the
DISPLAY variable in the .bashrc ; but this is not very satisfying. I would
rather understand what runs wrong. Any idea ?

Robert

* robert.zeller@robert-zeller.org wrote, On 01/09/2007 02:12 PM:

>Any idea ?

Zero, nada, zilch. Sorry.

Uwe



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robert.zeller@robert-zeller.org wrote:

>> robert.zeller@robert-zeller.org wrote:
>>
>> > Hi, I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2, Trying to start kaffeine from any
>> > user account fails without error message, but can be started from root
>> > account. I checked permission bits, but cannot find anything that might
>> > be the reason. Any idea ???
>>
>> Open console as normal user, type
>> kaffeine
>> and look on error messages. Post them here.
>>
>> --
>> Regards, Rajko.
>> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal
> Sorry, I did that, there are NO error messages, when starting kaffeine as
> a normal user from the console. I just get the console prompt back and
> nothing happens.

I stumbled over mail that said, for sound to work, in some cases normal ser
has to be added to group audio in openSUSE 10.2. Please check output of
command
groups

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http://en.opensuse.org/Portal

> > Robert,
> >
> > remove your
> > ~/.kde/share/config/kaffeinerc
> > and
> > ~/.kde/share/apps/kaffeine
> >
> > Uwe
> >
> > --
> > Novell Support Connection Volunteer SysOp
> > Please don't send me support related e-mail unless I ask you to do so.
> Uwe,
>
> I tried that, but it didn't work either; also I tried copying the
> kaffeinerc and kaffeine settings from the root account to my respective
> directories; same behavior as before: kaffeine simply does not start from
> my user account. no error messages whatsoever.
> I encounter this strange behavior of kaffeine on two different Linux systems.
>
> Robert
>

I followed Uwe's suggestion and it worked. Be aware that after deleting
kaffeinerc a backup file is created. I deleted also this one, and after I
could start Kaffeine as "user".

Axel
2.6.18.2-34-default
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