Strange problem and fix.

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quizno50
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Joined: Fri Dec 09, 2011 12:52 am

Strange problem and fix.

Post by quizno50 »

I have been experiencing a unique problem in pcmanfm where it would no longer start. After searching around the web for a while with no results. I dug into the source code and saw that it was hanging while trying to connect to a UNIX socket. I found out the socket was a file in

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/tmp/.pcmanfm-socket--0-[my_user_name]
Once I found this out the fix was easy: just do an

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rm /tmp/.pcmanfm-socket--0-[my_user_name]
and that solved it for me. Searching around google didn't turn up too many results so I hope this helps someone else out there with the same problem. =)
heisenberg
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Joined: Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:27 pm

Re: Strange problem and fix.

Post by heisenberg »

:D Thank you so much for this fix. I'm going to have to consider looking at this bug when school is over because it's happened to me a few times lately under Arch Linux.
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