ksysguard applet 'connection'

[daivd wolfson]

Fixed.


龍神 wrote:
> Had this same problem,  ksysguard worked stand alone but adding sensors to the 
> applet would prompt a connection dialog.
> 
> I found the solution on the gentoo forums a log time ago
> 
> Here is the post at gentoo forums by Curtis:
> 
> Aha! I found the problem. None of the above solutions worked, so I poked 
> around more and tried removing all sensors from ksysguarddrc (after numerous 
> tries of other things, compiling manually, etc, etc). 
>  
>  If I remove the Acpi sensor, (I also had to delete 
> ~/.kde/share/apps/ksysguard and ~/.kde/share/config/ksysguardrc), then 
> everything now works. yay! 

deleted these files and reastarted the applet and it's all go.

Cheers all.

Dave



>>Thanks for the pointer Tim,
>>
>>Tim München wrote:
>>
>>>daivd wolfson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I'm working on a laptop, and having had it switch itself off for want of
>>>>a battery monitor I had a look at adding one to the Ksysguard applet,
>>>>and now can't get it to work at all! The standalone application works
>>>>fine, but having removed all the monitors, whenever I drag a new sensor
>>>>to the applet I get a 'connection host - KDE panel' window. This already
>>>>has the host set to 'localhost', and a series of connection options:
>>>>ssh, rsh, daemon or custom command. I've tried each of these (but didn't
>>>>add a command to custom) and each time I get a disconnected symbol in
>>>>the graph and no info. The sensors tab in the prefernces menu for this
>>>>non-working graph says there is an error, but gives no more information.
>>>
>>>I had the same problem. It seemed that ksysguardd wasn't able to write a
>>>lockfile to /var/lock, thus weren't able to start.
>>>
>>>I "solved" it by making the dir /var/lock world-writeable. If there's a
>>>better solution, let me know - but this, at least, works.
>>
>>I've just given this a go, and still no luck. /var/lock contained only a
>>subfolder called 'subsys', which contained a numer of files, but none
>>apparently associted with sysguard. I've given full access to all thes
>>files/folders and still have the same thing; ksysguard application works
>>fine, but still no connection on the applet.
>>
>>Anyone got any other ideas please?
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>PS I've now got a battery monitor from kde-utils-laptop, but now no
>>system monitor!
>>
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