From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 10 9:16:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nebula.anchoragerescue.org (115-7-237-24-cable.anchorageak.net [24.237.7.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 969D737B488 for ; Fri, 10 May 2002 09:16:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from there (galaxy.anchoragerescue.org [24.237.7.95]) by nebula.anchoragerescue.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E6E56327; Fri, 10 May 2002 08:16:01 -0800 (AKDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Beech Rintoul Reply-To: akbeech@sinbad.net To: Mark , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DCOP server confusion/question Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:16:01 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] References: <3CDBD466.66877ECF@mchsi.com> In-Reply-To: <3CDBD466.66877ECF@mchsi.com> Organization: Sinbad Network Communications MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020510161601.E6E56327@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> 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 On Friday 10 May 2002 06:08 am, Mark wrote: > Hi, > > When I login to the system whether as a normal user or root, and I > immediately startx to KDE, I get the following message after which I'm > returned to the default console: > > There was an error setting up inter-process communication for KDE. The > message returned by the system was: > Could not read network connection list. > /root/.DCOPserver_mhumm2.mchsi.com_:0 > Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running. > > If I wait about 30 seconds to a minute then startx, I get in to KDE and > everything works fine (except for the sound server, but that's a > differnt post and not associated with this problem). OR if after > getting kicked back to the console I immediately repeat the startx > command, I'll usually get it. > > As with the above error message, I'm attempting to startx as root. If I > was doing the same thing as a normal user the error message would have > given the same message except with the home folder of the user. > /home/mark/.DCOPserver_ ... > > Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. > > Mark You didn't say which version you are running, but that problem was fixed in 2.2.2. If you are running an earlier version upgrade. Beech -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Beech Rintoul - SysAdmin - akbeech@sinbad.net /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | Sinbad Network Communications \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | 3101 Penland Parkway #K-38 X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Anchorage, AK 99508-1957 / \ ----------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message