Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources OS: Linux I often get the error message "Could not start process Can't talk to klauncher" from konqueror. Using another user solves this problem. I would like to dig deeper into that problem. Could you please change the error message so that one knows what one can look for or could you assist me within this bug report ?
Either klauncher isn't running or your DCOP session is busted.
The principal of bugzilla is that a user reports his problem how he sees it, and that we together then try to narrow down the root cause till we can fix it. So this bug is not invalid. To narrow down the root cause: killall kdeinit makes the symptome go away.
You kill some random KDE process (shoot blindly to your foot) and you expect program behave correctly after that?
Ok, to help you: when you get that error message, the problem has already happened. You've got the symptom: cannot talk to klauncher. Either klauncher died (for whichever reason) or the DCOP server did or the connection is somehow busted. There's not much that can be done for an error message. If you want to dig deeper, check if klauncher is running or not and if your DCOP session is still working. You should be able to run "dcop klauncher" from the command-line and see some output.