On Sep 29, 2012, at 15:18, Dave Tyson <dtyson%wirralcavinggroup.org.uk@localhost> wrote: ... > Bring kde4 up in a user with an clean filesystem produces a few crashes, in > particular knotify dies with signal 6. Having let kde create all its files I > restarted it, scripting the output and there are a huge number of error > messages: > > QKqueueFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: open: Too many open files Take a look at this thread for causes and workarounds: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-users/2012/09/09/msg016939.html Basically: turn off audio alerts and increase the limit for the number of open files. Regards, Sverre