just did a clean standard install of 10.2 using everything from the cd including the 2.4 kernel and kde. everything starts up fine so i install slapt-get (please dont flame) and update the installed system and reboot, no issues, everything is fine.

then i change the source in slapt-getrc to current and proceed to do a --dist-upgrade --remove-obsolete --reinstall (i dont know if this is the problem, i seem to remember having this issue before when doing just --dist-upgrade). reboot and login and run startx. it tries to load then i get an error that says:

Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation. (click okay)

then 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/user/.DCOPserver_hostname_0
Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running! (click OK)

now when i get back to the cli, i see that X shows some errors as well that relate to font paths and loading shared libraries libacl.so.1 and could not register with DCOPserver

any ideas? i have reinstalled a number of times using both the 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, it has done this before and after i have installed the nvidia driver. i have searched here and have checked permissions on my home folders, deleted .ICE and .DCOP files, created a new user, nothing seems to work.

HELP!

If it is saying it can't load a library, then install that package.

By the way, you can download ISOs of Slackware current here to install with, that tends to be easier than having to upgrade after the fact.

Maybe take a look here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...&highlight=acl

thank you both. i will try this in the morning and let you know how it worked out

i had found other sites that offered current iso's but wanted to see if i could get slapt-get to do it for me guess i learned

I had to add libacl.so.1 and libattr.so.1 to get KDE up and running after upgrading to 3.5.2.

Sometime, you have to "rm -r /home/*/.cache"

the resolution was as MS3FGX and Changeling said, i had to install the attr and acl packages and kde came up with no issues

thanks everyone!