Re: Bus Error Message [SOLVED]

[Wolfgang <wolfgang rpi net au>]

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 21:07, John Haxby wrote:
> Wolfgang Gill wrote:
> 
> >Hi All,
> >
> >Last night during a Doom3 binary update, my system crashed to the command
> >line. After trying to restart KDE, I found that it errors with the following
> >"Bus Error". I've checked all the logs, and I can't find out what is causing
> >this error.
> >
> >When I try to restart KDE with the 'startx' command, it brings up the Nvidia
> >logo, then a graphics desktop. And then prints and error "Can't start kdeinit.
> >Check your configuration". I can't find anything wrong with my KDE configuration. 
> >  
> >
> I've had problems akin to this when the ownership or permissions on some 
> files in /tmp and some dot-files in the user's home directory get 
> changed.  Check the ownership and permissions of all the /tmp/*username* 
> and ~username/.??* files (where "username" is the log in name).   It's 
> safe to remove files from /tmp although removing /tmp/.X* generally 
> means that you'll have to restart the X server.
> 
> jch

Thank you for the insight. I managed to solve the problem by
reinstalling the libstdc++-3.2.3-42 library and all is well again.

Wolf