Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 14:40:51 -0800 From: "Dummy dummy5" <ddummy5@hotmail.com> To: mhumm2@mchsi.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is a DCOPserver and What function Do They Serve??? Message-ID: <F65mY58RhGumtnXKkTr00004549@hotmail.com>
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Mark
In the past I had the same problem.
I had upgraded to KDE 2.2.2 and this problem disapper.
>From: Mark Hummel <mhumm2@mchsi.com>
>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: <LC82C115 PNIC II 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
>0xd5501000-0xd55010ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
>dc0: Ethernet address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>miibus0: <MII bus> 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
>
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