From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051118 Fedora/1.5-0.5.0.rc3 Firefox/1.5 Description of problem: Gaim just closes after a few minutes or if I try to send a message to someone. I ran Gaim from a shell and got this error: Creating link /root/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain. can't create mcop directory I tried to delete the .kde folder but it just recreates it empty. Tried to reinstall gaim - no change. It was working before I upgraded from FC4. Thanks. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gaim-1.5.0-9.fc5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start gaim 2.Double-click a buddy 3.Send a message Actual Results: Gaim exits with error message. Creating link /root/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain. can't create mcop directory Expected Results: Let me chat. Additional info:
I've tried to create a new user and copy my .gaim folder there - error still occurs.
Any different if you disable gaim's sound output?
Yes, then it works fine.
In sound preferences, I switched the "sound method" away from "Automatic" and if I try to switch it back to "automatic" it generates the same error msg (even with all sound options turned off). At least I can use it now. Thanks.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 169631 ***