Re: Konqueror no longer working after recent upgrades

Peter Watson <[email protected]> Sat, 6 Feb 2010 00:24:30 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.newbie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Friday 05 Feb 2010 20:10:10 Ole Madsen wrote:
> After installing a recnt batch of upgrades, I can no longer start
>  Konqueror.  It seems to be trying for a while, but then gives up.
> 
> However, I can start Konqueror from a terminal window, but here it also
>  takes a while, and several screenfulls of error messages are displayed;
>  something like this:
> 
> [ole@Ci2010 ~]$ konqueror
> QColor::setNamedColor: Unknown color name 'clear'
> ^[[B^[[B^[[Blibpng warning: Uninitialized row
> libpng warning: Uninitialized row
> libpng warning: Uninitialized row
> libpng warning: Uninitialized row
>   and so on....
> 
> After all these warnings, Konqueror appears to be running normally.  I
>  tried to un-install Konqueror and the re-installing it, but it still
>  behaves the same.  What is going on, and how do I get Konqueror running
>  properly again?
> 
> /Ole
> 
> 
I've recently had problems with konqueror not starting. I found that the 
problem related to using the command

kfmclient openProfile filemanagement

which apparently no longer works. The fix is to use

kfmclient openURL /home/user  (change user for your user name)

HTH
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