please check that the "dcopserver" program is running
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please check that the "dcopserver" program is running
alrighty here is the thing.
As with most newb's I am curious and always trying new things.
I have been playing with ownership/permissions and in the process have lost rights to all /home folders respectively for my users.
I am getting the error:
quote:
There was an error settuping up inter-process communications for KDE.
The message returned by the system was:
Could not read Network Connection List.
//: .DCOPserver_stealth__0
Please check that DCOPserver program is running.
I have tried (as per other posts and google findings):
chmod -R +w /home/*username
removing one file: /root/.ICEauthority
su -c "chown $WHO:users /home/$WHO/.ICEauthority" exit where $WHO is the user
Currently I can login as root and have no issues with KDE.
When in a root shell and su to my main account 'thanotos' to try and view permissions that the user has, this is the return
root@stealth:/home/windows# su thanotos
bash: /home/thanotos/.bashrc: Permission denied
thanotos@stealth:/home/windows$ cd
bash: cd: /home/thanotos: Permission denied
So all that I know for sure is that I do not have permissions for any of my users other than root. Nor can I change them back.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I really dont want to remove and readd users.
I've had this problem recently when changing from SuSE back to Slackware. I reused a disk for /home, since I wanted to keep the files on it, and the user names and groups didn't match up, so DCOP saw ownership and group problems. I knew there was a problem when I did 'ls -al' to look at the dotfiles in my home dir and the user and group shown were numbers instead of my login and a group name.
I fixed it by chown'ing the dotdirs and dotfiles in my home dir to my login and chgrp'ing them to 'users'. I didn't know how to do only the dirs and files, but not the parent dir, so I did it in a series of commands:
chown -R my_login .a* .b* ...
then:
chgrp -R users .a* .b* ...
If I did 'chown -R .*' it would have tried to do the parent dir (..) too. Maybe someone can chime in with an easier way, but this fixed the problem for me.
I have spent the last couple of days trying to resolve this issue too. I eventually resolved it by setting my Home directory permissions to the default Home directory settings of 755 (I had other users to compare the settings with), i.e.
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