Applications unusable

Gregory P. Ennis PoMec at PoMec.Net
Sun Jun 18 21:04:34 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 21:57 +0100, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> Since I've installed FC5 from scratch a few days ago, some programs
> have become unusable and I am forced to reset the computer to get them
> back. For other apps, even reseting the machine does not help. For
> instance, Firefox or Kopete will randomly crash, and I cannot reopen
> them. Reseting helps for these apps.
> 
> Other apps, such as Amarok and Konqueror are useless even after a
> reset. Amarok will not play music, and does not complain- it just
> hangs. It was working properly for about a day or two. The problem is
> not in the sound system, and K3B made a sound when it finished
> burning. Konqueror tells me that KDEInit cannot open whatever file or
> folder that I am trying to open if I click on an icon. If I manage to
> get it open and type the address into the address bar, it will open
> the directory in question.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
> 
> Dotan Cohen
> http://what-is-what.com
> 32323

Dotan,

Not sure if I have a good answer for you but in my experience FC5 has
had a lot of update gliches.  Make sure you run "yum -y update" from
root to get everything caught up with current modifications.

Hope this helps!

Greg




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