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Old 12-04-2003, 03:40 PM   #1
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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

Last edited by powadha; 12-05-2003 at 11:06 AM.
 
Old 12-04-2003, 03:56 PM   #2
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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?
 
Old 12-04-2003, 11:05 PM   #3
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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)

Last edited by powadha; 12-05-2003 at 01:32 AM.
 
Old 12-05-2003, 11:08 AM   #4
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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
 
Old 12-05-2003, 11:09 AM   #5
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Quote:
Originally posted by powadha
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)
With this being a fresh install and upgrade you want all the maintainers versions of the config files it is going to install there most likely are going to major changes in the structure of the file. If you had been using the system for a while and made changes to the files you would want to enter d at the asking screen to see the differences in the files being changed and if looks like there are a lot of changes so that the structure of the file is being changed instead of just overwritng your changes then you take the maintainers version and edit the file later for your preferences otherwise keep your edited version.

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
kdelibs-bin: /usr/lib/dcopserver.so
kdelibs-bin: /usr/share/man/man1/dcopserver.1.gz
kdelibs-bin: /usr/bin/dcopserver_shutdown
kdelibs-bin: /usr/bin/dcopserver
kdelibs-bin: /usr/share/man/man1/dcopserver_shutdown.1.gz
kdelibs-bin: /usr/lib/dcopserver.la
To check what you have installed for KDE try:
Code:
HappyTux:/home/stephen# COLUMNS=125 dpkg -l | grep 3.1.[34]
ii  ark                       3.1.4-1                   KDE archiving tool
ii  kaddressbook              3.1.4-1                   KDE NG addressbook application
ii  kappfinder                3.1.3-1                   KDE Application Finder
ii  kate                      3.1.3-1                   KDE Advanced Text Editor
ii  kcontrol                  3.1.3-1                   KDE Control Center
ii  kdeartwork-theme-desktop  3.1.4-1                   Dummy upgrade package for official KDE desktop themes
ii  kdeartwork-theme-icon     3.1.4-1                   icon themes released with KDE
ii  kdebase                   3.1.3-1                   KDE Base metapackage
ii  kdebase-bin               3.1.3-1                   KDE Base (binaries)
ii  kdebase-data              3.1.3-1                   KDE Base (shared data)
ii  kdebase-kio-plugins       3.1.3-1                   KDE I/O Slaves
ii  kdelibs-bin               3.1.4-3                   KDE core binaries
ii  kdelibs-data              3.1.4-3                   KDE core shared data
ii  kdelibs4                  3.1.4-3                   KDE core libraries
ii  kdepim-libs               3.1.4-1                   KDE PIM libraries
ii  kdeprint                  3.1.3-1                   KDE Print
ii  kdesktop                  3.1.3-1                   KDE Desktop
ii  kdewallpapers             3.1.4-1                   wallpapers released with KDE
ii  kdm                       3.1.3-1                   KDE Display Manager
ii  kfind                     3.1.3-1                   KDE File Find Utility
ii  kget                      3.1.4-1                   KDE Download Manager
ii  kghostview                3.1.4-1                   PostScript viewer for KDE
ii  khelpcenter               3.1.3-1                   KDE Help Center
ii  kicker                    3.1.3-1                   KDE Desktop Panel
ii  klipper                   3.1.3-1                   KDE Clipboard
ii  kmail                     3.1.4-1                   KDE Email client
ii  kmenuedit                 3.1.3-1                   KDE Menu Editor
ii  kompare                   3.1.4-2                   a KDE GUI for viewing differences between files
ii  konqueror                 3.1.3-1                   KDE's advanced File Manager, Web Browser and Document Viewer
ii  konqueror-nsplugins       3.1.3-1                   Netscape plugin support for Konqueror
ii  konsole                   3.1.3-1                   KDE X terminal emulator
ii  kpager                    3.1.3-1                   KDE Desktop Pager
ii  kpersonalizer             3.1.3-1                   KDE Personalizer
ii  ksmserver                 3.1.3-1                   KDE Session Manager
ii  ksplash                   3.1.3-1                   KDE Splash Screen
ii  ksysguard                 3.1.3-1                   KDE System Guard
ii  ksysguardd                3.1.3-1                   KDE System Guard Daemon
ii  ktip                      3.1.3-1                   Kandalf's Useful Tips
ii  kuickshow                 3.1.4-1                   KDE image/slideshow viewer
ii  kview                     3.1.4-1                   KDE simple image viewer/converter
ii  kwin                      3.1.3-1                   KDE Window Manager
ii  libkdenetwork2            3.1.4-1                   KDE Network (common libraries)
ii  libkonq4                  3.1.3-1                   Core libraries for KDE's file manager
ii  libmimelib1               3.1.4-1                   KDE network mime library
ii  xfonts-konsole            3.1.3-1                   Fonts used by the KDE Konsole
Your list of packages should look similar if not install the packages you need. You will most likely run into the libsensors-1-debian1 bug you should get the file from this page and have it available to install with dpkg when it happens so you can continue the install of KDE.
 
Old 12-06-2003, 08:24 AM   #6
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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?

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Old 12-06-2003, 08:29 AM   #7
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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.
 
Old 12-06-2003, 08:46 AM   #8
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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!)
 
Old 12-10-2003, 12:56 AM   #9
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Quote:
Originally posted by llamakc
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?
i had this problem twice, but this file was in /home/coldy not in /tmp
powadha, try to remove the file from your home dir it's hidden (with dot on the start of it)

Edit: use ls -a

Last edited by coldy; 12-10-2003 at 04:31 AM.
 
Old 12-10-2003, 05:45 AM   #10
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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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