KDE4 apps don't launch

[Doug McComber]

On 28 July 2011 15:35, Brandon Allbery <allbery.b at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 13:19, Doug McComber <doug.mccomber at gmail.com>
> That's exactly the problem:  the symlinks point to nonexistent directories,
> so kdeinit4 won't start up.  You need to create the target directories:
>
>     mkdir $TMPDIR/ksocket-$USER $TMPDIR/kde-$USER
>
> There are apparently some other issues people have run into as well, but the
> above was sufficient to fix it for me.
>
>>
>> What part of KDE should I possibly re-build via Macports to fix this?
>
> I wish it were that simple....
>
> --
> brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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>
>
Works now.  That was easy enough.  I wasn't sure that I could just
create the target directories.

Thanks,
Doug