Gaim crashing in Fedora Core 4

[Robor]

I can launch gaim as a normal user, create an account, and log in. However, if I had a queued message coming in while I was offline Gaim will crash immediately. If I don't have a message waiting Gaim will launch and be fine until I receive a message or attempt to send one. When that happens it slams closed immediately with no error.

If I go to terminal, su to the root level, and launch Gaim I can do anything with no issues whatsoever.

Any suggestions?

 

[sigs3gv]

Run GAIM through a terminal (by typing gaim in a terminal) and observe STDOUT.
It should tell you what type of error occurs.

 

[Robor]

Okay, I got the cause of the problem... It's "Creating link /home/Robor007/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain. can't create mcop directory".

I googled it but couldn't find anything directly related to Gaim or a solution.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Check permissions.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Check permissions.

That's what I was thinking as well so I asked another AT member who has been helping me through IM's if I should give my account root access. He didn't think it was a good idea or even the solution. Well, after an un/reinstall of Gaim through yum extender even root couldn't use Gaim without that error.

I did some more digging by googling pieces of the error message and found one reference to sound output causing the problem. Another Gaim user said using "Arts" caused his to crash. Well, mine was set to automatic. If I set it to Arts it worked but if I switched back to Automatic it crashed. I don't know why mine is acting in reverse of his but it's working under my standard user login (without admin rights) and all appears good.

 

[Nothinman]

That's what I was thinking as well so I asked another AT member who has been helping me through IM's if I should give my account root access

And that's impossible. You could set your uid to 0 to essentially be root, but it'll cause all kinds of odd problems.