login problem (upgrading questions)
When installing I created an extra account. Trying to login KDE wont work I get:
There was an error setting up inter-process Communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. /home/powadha/.DCOPserver_debian_0 PLease check that the "dcopserver" program is running! What should I do? Root works fine and I can log into gnome as user powadha. It's a fresh installed system, can this be fixed? Regards |
make sure there's no DCOP stuff in /tmp. Delete it and try again. And yes, it can always be fixed. You should let us know if you are running stable/testing/unstable and if you are using other apt sources.list lines from the debian.org (or mirror) ones. This isn't the openboxsoftware.com kdecvs stuff is it?
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I'm running unstable and just used the apt sources I could choose during install. Only changed stable to unstable.
In /temp is nothing on DCOP. Just when I thought I got it right....;) BTW could this have anything to do with installing to SID from scratch (netinst)? Might it be safer to install stable and get everything up and running and then upgrade to SID? Just a thought. Just as confusing is that after install (but before I even start X for the first time) I get the option to install a bunch of updates. The default is to keep current settings or to install the maintainers version. What's the best way to go? Final question: The netinst doesn't come with Dutch language support. On the KDE site I can't find a Dutch language pack for Debian. Any clues on how to get this done? (redhad package didn't install) |
Well, I went for the stable install which went fine. I now have edited my sources.list and will soon be running into the maintainers questions. Any help please!
regards |
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To get the language package for KDE you will have to install the kde-i18n-?? package for the language code that you want and for the system itself you would want the locales, localeconf and localepurge programs with the localepurge being a program that allows you to select the locales that you want to remain on the system and to be generated each time you upgrade the packages this can take quite a while if you leave all them installed. For the dcop error dpkg says that it is installed in the kdelibs-bin package so what do you have installed for KDE? Code:
HappyTux:/home/stephen# dpkg -S dcopserver Code:
HappyTux:/home/stephen# COLUMNS=125 dpkg -l | grep 3.1.[34] |
I checked all you said but I have nothing missing. I found someone with the same prob on aanother forum and the hint was:
Goto your home directory and run the command chown -R yourusername * This should fix the problem. Well it doesn't and I have no clue what it should do. What is chown and why doesn't it work? Regards |
man chown
chown --help Usage: chown [OPTION]... OWNER[:[GROUP]] FILE... or: chown [OPTION]... :GROUP FILE... or: chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP. You can pass the GNU --help flag to most commands to get useful information. You can also take the time to read the man page with "man chown". Additionally, documentation may reside in /usr/share/doc/NAMEOFPACKAGE, in this instance /usr/share/doc/ (chown doesn't have documentation there btw). So the fix you saw was trying to change ownership of files in your home directory to your username. I wouldn't expect this to work. Do this for experimentation: create a newuser. login as that user on a different tty. Then try running startx (or using your login manager). Does that work? If so you have reduced the cause down to the first user. |
Thanx for your patience, I'll do some better searching! I tried your hint and created a new user. (adduser guest). I get the exact same error when starting KDE:
could not read network connection list /home/guest/>DCOPserver_debian__0 Really weird since root is working just fine (besides this prob, I'm really glad to have Debian up and running!) |
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powadha, try to remove the file from your home dir it's hidden (with dot on the start of it) Edit: use ls -a |
Well, I can't find any of these files. I did find a /home/powada/.kde3-errors:
/etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: Registering your session with wtmp and utmp /etc/gdm/PreSession//Default: running: sessreg -a -w /var/log/wtmp -u /var/run/utmp -x "/var/lib/gdm/:0.Xservers" -h "" -l :0 powadha + WM=kde3 + cp /dev/null /home/powadha/.kde3-errors + chmod 600 /home/powadha/.kde3-errors + exec I'm getting used to work as root by now (not good, I know) |
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