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nicolito

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Registered: 2014-02-25

Posts: 7

KDE applications fail after system update: Unable to create io-slave

I just now did a system upgrade (Syu). For some reason the KDE apps seem to have been affected by something.
I don't know how to go about debugging this.
This is the error message I get when starting an application:

Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:

and these are the packages that were upgraded:

(22) android-udev-r146-1  binutils-2.25.1-2  evolution-data-server-3.16.5-1  firefox-40.0-1  flashplugin-11.2.202.508-1
           gcc-libs-multilib-5.2.0-2  gcc-multilib-5.2.0-2  gcc-objc-multilib-5.2.0-2  glibc-2.22-1  gnupg-2.1.7-1  ldns-1.6.17-3
           lib32-gcc-libs-5.2.0-2  lib32-glibc-2.22-1  lib32-mesa-10.6.4-1  lib32-mesa-libgl-10.6.4-1  linux-api-headers-4.1.4-1
           mesa-10.6.4-1  mesa-libgl-10.6.4-1  octave-4.0.0-1  pacman-mirrorlist-20150811-1  subversion-1.9.0-1  vala-0.28.1-1

Any ideas or hints on how to debug?

DrDeath

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From: Greece

Registered: 2009-05-09

Posts: 29

Re: KDE applications fail after system update: Unable to create io-slave

Try reboot. Solved it for me.

nicolito

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Registered: 2014-02-25

Posts: 7

Re: KDE applications fail after system update: Unable to create io-slave

Thanks,
I don't know why I didn't think of that. Must be getting old . .  .

That solved it