From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 27 14:45:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f65.law9.hotmail.com [64.4.9.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90FCB37B88D for ; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:42:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:40:52 -0800 Received: from 200.66.2.71 by lw9fd.law9.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:40:51 GMT X-Originating-IP: [200.66.2.71] From: "Dummy dummy5" To: mhumm2@mchsi.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a DCOPserver and What function Do They Serve??? Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:40:51 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 27 Mar 2002 22:40:52.0062 (UTC) FILETIME=[72ED27E0:01C1D5E0] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mark In the past I had the same problem. I had upgraded to KDE 2.2.2 and this problem disapper. >From: Mark Hummel >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: What is a DCOPserver and What function Do They Serve??? >Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:56:04 -0600 > >It took me 2 hours to even figure out how to pose this question because my >symptoms are so intermittent. I can't even find a man page about these >files >nor can I find anything in my fbsd books. > >My desire is to boot directly to KDE, but I don't want to set that up until >I >can get it to work manually the first time and every time. > >I have a cable modem set up with my LinkSys NIC which fbsd does recognize >quite well as dc0. > >mhumm2# dmesg|grep dc0 >dc0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem >0xd5501000-0xd55010ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 >dc0: Ethernet address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx >miibus0: on dc0 > >Running startx begins to bring up the KDE start screen, but then >the error occurs: > > There was an error setting up inter-process > communication for KDE. The message returned > by the system was: > > /root/.DCOPserver_mhumm2_:0 > Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running! > >When I click on "ok", I'm sent back to terminal text mode. If I wait for >about 1 minute, I can startx again and stand a 50-50 chance of everything >working fine (except a fatal sound error, but that's another post). > >Sometimes it's 1 retry and sometimes it takes 3, but eventually, KDE does >come up without a dcopserver error. Here are my config files: > >mhumm2# cat /etc/rc.conf > # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Dec 29 20:50:50 2001 ># Created: Sat Dec 29 20:50:50 2001 ># Enable network daemons for user convenience. ># Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. ># This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. > >kern_securelevel_enable="NO" >linux_enable="YES" >moused_enable="YES" >nfs_reserved_port_only="YES" >sendmail_enable="NO" >sshd_enable="YES" >usbd_enable="YES" >lpd_enable="YES" >ifconfig_dc0="DHCP" >hostname="mhumm2" > >mhumm2#cat /etc/dhclient.conf ># $FreeBSD: src/etc/dhclient.conf,v 1.2 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ ># ># This file is required by the ISC DHCP client. ># See ``man 5 dhclient.conf'' for details. ># ># In most cases an empty file is suffient for most people as the ># defaults are usually fine. ># > >interface "dc0" { >send host-name; >request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, > domain-name-servers, domain-name, time-servers; >require domain-name-servers; >} > > >I don't understand the text in the file /root/.DCOPserver_mhumm2 and >/root/.DCOPserver_mhumm2_:0 but here they are: > >mhumm2# cd /root >mhumm2# cat .DCOPserver_mhumm2 >local/mhumm2:/tmp/.ICE-unix/504 >504 > >mhumm2# cat .DCOPserver_mhumm2_:0 >local/mhumm2:/tmp/.ICE-unix/504 >504 > >And before you ask, "Yes", I am su(ing) to root before I run startx. I saw >a >reply by Ms. Annelise that touched on this topic, but I'm not clear on it. > >Please help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to >start helping others on this mailing list, but I've got to understand this >stuff first. > >Mark > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message