[sllug-members]: KDEINIT cannot launch anything!

[Chris Brown]

Daren,

  Bummer.

  Do you have a screensaver set to run? If you do, does it activate
during this interval? Have you tried turn it off?

  Is the BIOS set to allow hibernation/sleep?  When you come back to
your computer does the PC power light give any indication the computer
might be in sleep mode?

Chris Brown

Daren Beattie wrote:
> Dear SLLUGgers,
>
> I've had a raspberry seed in my teeth since re-installing Debian Etch
> onto my desktop box. If I leave my computer sitting awhile (I'm
> guessing 30 minutes, but haven't timed it) and then come back to it,
> KDE has problems launching programs from either the panel buttons or
> my keyboard's multimedia keys. In some cases, I'll get the bouncing
> cursor and the taskbar will show the name of the program that's trying
> to launch, but it will never actually launch. In other cases, I get a
> message box saying "KDEINIT could not launch <whatever program>."
>
> Yesterday I tried re-installing everything related to KDE, to no
> avail. I did run across one more clue, which is that each time I try
> to launch a program, one of the following two errors gets added to my
> .xsession-errors file:
>
> ----------
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> (firefox-bin:14938): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:
> ----------
>
> The above is all generated by trying to launch Firefox from my
> keyboard's multi-media key.
>
> ----------
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
> Xlib: Invalid MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 key
> konsole: cannot connect to X server :0.0
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode: 19
>   Minor opcode: 0
>   Resource id: 0xc008e9
> X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
>   Major opcode: 20
>   Minor opcode: 0
>   Resource id: 0xc008e9
> ----------
>
> The above is what I get when trying to launch Konsole, again from a
> multi-media key.
>
> I get the same error in .xsession-errors for Firefox when trying to
> launch it from my panel, and trying to launch Konsole from the K-menu
> entry gives the same errors except for the BadWindow bits (which I
> think are related to the dialog that pops up to tell me Kdeinit could
> not launch konsole).
>
> Googling for these new clues again turns up nothing relevant;
> everything related to not being able to connect to the X server
> appears to be an xhosts and su thing, which is not my problem (I'm
> assuming) because I'm trying to run things as myself on my own X
> server--things which had worked fine earlier in the same session.
>
> Any hints on what to check?
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