[kde-freebsd] Konqueror and the Cookiejar

[Scot Hetzel]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Paul Horechuk <horechuk at csolve.net> wrote:
> Since upgrading to 7.0 Stable, I've noticed an occasional problem with
> konqueror. I've been recompiling my ports for the past few weeks and have
> noticed that some sites are complaining about cookies not being enabled.
> Further investigation has revealed that if I start konqueror from the
> terminal prompt, I can get an error message:
> khtml (dom) Can't communicate with the cookiejar!
>
> A workaround I've discovered is to run kded first. Konqueror works with
> cookies after that.
>

I have also noticed this with KDE 3.5.8 and 3.5.9.  The problem isn't
that kded is not being run, the real problem is that something is
causing kded to core dump.  Search your system for *.core files.

The only solution I found was to restart kded, and then cookies worked.

Scot