Ok, this is my first post and I'm also quite new to linux... Simply, I have somehow broken my installation of linux (mandrake 10.0) and have no idea how to fix it. It was either my attempts to install one of those (evil) .rpm things which really don't seem to work whatever I do to them, or something I did at the command prompt while trying out different stuff. Most of it was, I think, harmless enough like listing the contents of a directory and changing directory, but I also tried to run the .rpm file from there as well since trying to open them in KDE doesn't seem to do anything.

Anyway, it's now broken and whenever I try to run linux my computer says this and won't continue:


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/ben/.DCOPserver_localhost_0

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!


Ok, that means exactly nothing to me. All I know is that KDE won't work now, although I can go to the command prompt by re-booting in failsafe. I did try re-installing linux, but it's still doing the same thing. If anyone can give any help, I'd be very thankful as I know I can't fix this myself.

" I did try re-installing linux, but it's still doing the same"

are u sure u formatted that partiton and going to the fresh install
because if u screwed up some settings then after a reinstall that should have gone fine

also can u login with another user or root???

regards

Hi,
What exactly do you mean by "try reinstalling linux" ?
Did you just start the whole process with your Mandriva boot disk ?
It should provide a brand new install. Do it if you're stuck, don't try to fix things.That'll come later
Now to install new software, Mandrake (now called Mandriva) has a very useful tool
called URPMI. You'd better not try other methods.
Go to this site : urpmi.zarb.org, follow the instructions, that should provide you lots of programs.
You could visit MandrakeClub.com, also, there is a forum where you can post as a guest.

Hope it helps
Cheers

ooops masand, you beat by 3 minutes !

There is a hidden file in your home directory with this name. Mandrake should create it correctly and automatically. Try to login as root and see if this file exists. If it`s there check if it`s correct mine looks like this

.DCOPserver_linux__0

local/linux:/tmp/.ICE-unix/dcop5586-1113809369
5586

If you delete this file it probably gets recreated automatically. I never had this problem with mandrake.
why to use 10.0 there is 10.1 and some newer version was also released.

Wow, three replies allready! Thank you, that was faster than I expected...

Well, I'm not sure of all the technical stuff you said, but I also thought a re-install would fix everything. I used the boot disks again and first tried updating, which didn't work, and then tried a full re-install which also didn't work. I don't recall having the option to format the disk, I assumed a full re-install would have done that, but I don't believe it has. I'm thinking I should try again and see if I can find the format option. There's nothing too important on that drive, just a load of links I collected and some old college work that's allready handed in and been marked.

As for why use 10.0 when there's 10.1, well I only have the disks for 10.0, plus I don't want to start adding more variables to the problem. If I can get 10.0 working like it did before then I'll be happy, and I might update it later, although I usually avoid trying to update stuff as it seems like fixing something which isn't broken.

yes re-install should solve that but if u (as mentioned above u) should try deleting that file and it should be created a new one automatically

regards

I just wanted to thank everyone for helping and tell you that I just formatted the disk, re-installed and everything is good again. I'm actually writing this in linux now!