Hi,

Last night I tried to upgrade my previous KDE verstion to the new one 3.2.2.
But when I tried to log in into KDE, two error messages appeared:

Does anybody know how to fix this in order to log in into KDE session?

Greetings
gonzalo

A search here turned up this thread:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=126525


and a Google search turned up this thread:

http://www.linuxforum.com/forums/ind...showtopic=8053

The first one is about permissions problems in the user's home directory and the second one is about missing libraries

HTH
---thegeekster

I got the following snippet from the kde site, and have used it with success on several occaisions:

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4.17.

I upgraded KDE and it seemed to go fine, but when I start it, I get a blank grey screen, and nothing happens. There are errors in the console about DCOPserver. What's going on?


KDE uses several temporary files during it's operation. These are usually to be found in the following locations:

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~/.DCOPserver-* (there are usually two of these, one is a symlink to the other)
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~/.kde/socket-hostname
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~/.kde/tmp-hostname which is normally a symlink to the next file:
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/tmp/tmp-kde-USER
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~/.kde/socket-hostname which is also normally a symlink to:
*

/tmp/ksocket-USER

If the symlinks get broken, usually because a cron or shutdown script is emptying out the /tmp directory, then strange things will happen. These files, and the symlinks, will all be created automatically at the start of KDE so you can safely remove them while KDE is not running.

If you are getting only a grey screen when you start KDE, or if you get an error message telling you to Check your installation, then shut down X and delete all the files listed above, then try to restart X.

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tobyl

Thank you for your replies:

tobyl:

Actually, I don't have any ~/.DCOPserver folder. Is this correct?

Yes, this is correct.
But I would expect you to have two files, (not folders)

Mine looks like

/home/toby/.DCOPserver_darkstar__:0
/home/toby/.DCOPserver_darkstar__0

the first is a symlink to the second
delete these, likewise in root folder.

In /home/user/.kde delete
socket-hostname
tmp-hostname

these are symlinks to the folders in /tmp
likewise for root

In /tmp delete folders
kde-root
kde-yourusername
ksocket-root
ksocket-yourusername

(yes, the layout has changed slightly from my post, sorry I did not notice)
delete these without kde running if you can, don't forget you will need to do a [recursive] rm -r kde-root etc if you do it from the console on folders as a straight rm will just tell you that it is a directory.

***PLEASE BE VERY CAREFUL USING rm -r , ESPECIALLY AS ROOT !!!***
YOU COULD DO A LOT OF DAMAGE TO YOUR SYSTEM, AVOID WILDCARDS (*)!!!

When you restart kde, these files and folders (why am I saying folders? sounds awfully M$oft, I mean directories!) will be recreated and all will be well again.

tobyl