strange startup issue

When I boot Kubuntu, knetworkmanger is scheduled to start up in order to get my wireless internet running. After starting up Knetworkmanager usually accesses the wallet and I have to input my root password.

But, lately, I've been getting other programs such as the "DCOP Server" popping up and asking me for the root password instead. After typing the password, knetworkmanager no longer starts up (the taskbar icon never appears) and as a result I have no wireless internet. When I try to start up knetworkmanager myself via the K menu, absolutely nothing happens.

This issue is hit or miss (sometimes DCOP Server does not interfere) and it's really getting on my nerves. Does anyone have a potential solution? It would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT: This problem is apparently a bug. Here are several links to people recognizing and discussing the problem:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/knetworkmanager/+bug/69118
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=327786

 

Thanks for the links. I've noticed it sometimes, but it's never gotten to be enough for me to worry about. I just restart knetworkmanager and get on with it

FYI, the DCOP Server doesn't really interfere... it's necessary for the two programs (kwallet and knetworkmanager) to communicate. It's the standard IPC server of KDE.

 

How do you restart knetworkmanager (using the Konsole)?

 

To find any process, you can type "ps ax | grep {progname}"

That will find the program {progname} in the list of currently running processes. I don't have knetworkmanager running on my desktop, but I'll use kdm as a surrogate for the knetworkmanager. Whenever you see "kdm", you should replace it with knetworkmanager, or just knet should be close enough.

Code:

david@dualie:~$ ps ax | grep kdm
 5052 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/bin/kdm
 7413 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep kdm

Notice the process numbers? If I wanted to kill the kdm process, now I'd type "kill 5052". You'd do the same for any other process you wanted to kill manually. Hope that helps

 

It does help a great deal. Thank you very much.