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Sunday, July 6th 2003, 1:16am

Kinternet "already running"

I've been using KDE 3.0.3 with SuSE 8.1 Personal, and several times in the past months when I try to launch Kinternet, I get a message "Kinternet is already running. It is the small icon showing a connector in your panel."

Most times (possibly all) the Kinternet icon along with the volume icon has disappeared from the kicker when I login - and it seems this consistently happens after I have done some adding/deleting of buttons on the kicker - once I'm sure I accidentally deleted the Kinternet button. Adding the button back and clicking it still gives the "already running" message.

My only solution has been to set myself up as a new user and hopefully copy all my settings and data from my original user. Really aggravating!

Thanks for any help on this.

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Monday, July 7th 2003, 7:53pm

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You could use Yast to reset your modem/ISDN/ADSL and ISP settings this restarts Kinternet. This might effect the Icon. Works for me everytime I muck things up :oops:
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Tuesday, July 8th 2003, 3:56am

Thanks for the suggestion but I did reconfigure the modem via Yast several times. Even powered off, disconnected the modem, powered on, removed modem and provider via Yast, powered off again and back on, and the Kinternet icon on the root and other user's desktop showed with an exclamation mark saying 'modem not detected' or something, but no icon on my own user desktop and the same message 'already running' if I tried to connect. Then powered off again, re-connected the modem, powered back on, configured modem and provider in Yast, and the Kinternet icon on the root and other user's desktop showed normal and connected normally. But my own desktop kicker didn't show the icon, and when I tried adding it I got a different icon (the gear figure) - and either clicking that or running Kinternet from the Start button, both still give me "Kinternet is already running".

The problem is only with the one user (me) - root and the other user have no problem!

Eight months ago when this first happened and I was still on SuSE installation support, the support persons there couldn't figure it out. But surely there's some way to convince the KDE gremlins inside that Kinternet is NOT still running for one user!

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Wednesday, July 9th 2003, 8:40am

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Your problem is loging in as root. Root is for system admin only, and many features like kinternets systray icons don't work there.

You need an ordinary account for yourself for every day use.

You only go into root when you need to make significant system changes and you know what you are doing... Root is not designed for normal every day use.
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Wednesday, July 9th 2003, 8:48am

Re: Kinternet "already running"

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I've been using KDE 3.0.3 with SuSE 8.1 Personal, and several times in the past months when I try to launch Kinternet, I get a message "Kinternet is already running. It is the small icon showing a connector in your panel."

Most times (possibly all) the Kinternet icon along with the volume icon has disappeared from the kicker when I login - and it seems this consistently happens after I have done some adding/deleting of buttons on the kicker - once I'm sure I accidentally deleted the Kinternet button. Adding the button back and clicking it still gives the "already running" message.

My only solution has been to set myself up as a new user and hopefully copy all my settings and data from my original user. Really aggravating!

Thanks for any help on this.


One kwik way around it, but not a solution is to type #pkill kinternet on command line and than re-launch kinternet. You could also use Yast to un-install it and re-install it and see if that sorts out the problem.

According to the message above you should not run as root as it will not work, well with no disrespect to melling I have used kinternet as a root user for many months. Although I agree that root should not be used as the everyday user. :D
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Monday, July 14th 2003, 3:17am

Thanks for the suggestions - the #pkill kinternet let me launch kinternet, but then klauncher was disabled so I couldn't launch the browser or email.

Anyway - I checked bugs.kde.org and found the simple answer - the kinternet icon is part of the "system tray", and apparently if you try to delete any one of the system tray icons (like the volume icon), the whole system tray disappears. So I just added the applet "system tray" and kinternet works fine again.
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