kde and dcopserver

[Minora]

I installed Slackware 8.0

Configured xfree86 and kde worked perfectly. Yesterday when I started my system KDE refuses to startup the following box pops up
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There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. /root/.DCOPServer_/minora_:0

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!"
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It just stop working without me even changing anything I did a search on google and found some suggestions how to fix it but none worked any other idea's. Gnome etc works fine by the way.

 

[ifincham]

Hi,





Did you try to do :





rm -rf /root/.DCOP*





There are probably just some lock files or suchlike left lying around. The normal approach is to delete all such files because the app will generally just recreate them when it starts. Does it only fail for root only or for all users ?





Regards

 

[Minora]

Hi

Yes I did that and also delete every thing in /tmp/
It affects all the users

regards

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Hmmm do you get any useful messages if you invoke it directly :

/usr/bin/dcopserver

Regards

 

[Minora]

Only one line

Aborting $DISPLAY is not set.

regards

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Then try :

export DISPLAY=:0
/usr/bin/dcopserver

Regards

 

[Minora]

I get

DCOPServer self-test failed.

after entering the above

Regards

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Hmmmm... I'd need to look at the source to get a better idea of what's going on there. Have you tried just re-installing the kdelibs tarball ?

Regards

 

[Minora]

Hi

I ran setup and removed kde and then reinstalled it again. It still does it.

Regards

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



I don't use KDE a lot personally so I can't really advise from my own experience but you could try to delete some or all of the various temp files and directories referred to in this (somewhat) related posting -->

http://oss.software.ibm.com/pipermail/aixtoolbox-list/2001-July/000370.html

. There is sure to be some file or files left lying around that is causing this and its obviously not a problem with the kde binaries if you reinstalled.



Regards

 

[Guest_imported]

I had exactly the same problem. I fixed it by adding /usr/X11R6/bin to my PATH in /etc/profile.d/X11R6.sh