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MDominic

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Wednesday, October 10th 2007, 10:54am

Problem with Programs Not Starting

I've had the most interesting problem since I installed KDE over Ubuntu Feisty Fawn....sometimes (apparently randomly as far as I can see), when I attempt to start a program, I will get the flashing cursor to indicate that the program is attempting to start, but then the cursor returns to normal and the program does not start.
Once that happens, I am not able to start the process manager either to find out if the program is already resident. The only way to restore normal behavior is to restart X. I have observes this behaviour with Firefox, Gimp, Amarok, Rhythmbox, and a few other programs, so it does not appear to be program specific.
Can anyone suggest a cause/fix for this problem?

Thanks.

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Sunday, October 14th 2007, 12:22am

Nothing? It's starting to look like I'm going to have to go back to Gnome, just because this is so annoying. I've Googled and checked the Ubuntu forums, but I haven't found a solutions. Last call.....

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Sunday, October 14th 2007, 6:46pm

RE: Problem with Programs Not Starting

I'd suggest you try starting the program from
a console window (e.g. konsole).
Watch the messages on the console window.
Maybe they give a hint.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "volker" (Oct 14th 2007, 6:47pm)