Re: KMail not launching



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> Using SuSE 10.0 and KDE 3.5 on a Toshiba Satellite with P4 processor and
> 1GB RAM.
> In the middle of working on the machine and closed down Kmail to work on
> something els, when trying to reopen the program nothing is happening. I
> can see the taskbar and cursor indicators that it's launching as working
> for some seconds before it stops.
> When I sign in as root, there is no problem to open the program, so I

Maybe it is still active and resides in the sysbar (kmail symbol).
Don't ever log into kde or gnome as root!

> think the problem must be located in the user setting? Anybody has had
> this problem before and can lead me in the right direction? After some
> searching on Goggle I found out there has been a bug in the program, but
> that was in December. If more information is needed, please tell me.

Start kmail in a console window (first:"killall kmail") and look at the
output, it usually points you to the problem.
This method works in most similar situations.

Maybe you'll have tp clean your temp files.
Log off and rm -r /tmp/*
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