I've had a bit of a disaster with my SuSE 9.1 personal installation this evening. This has been running like a dream, but I was adding and deleting users in YaST tonight (all my family have a separate user area) and in doing so I seem to have created a situation in which the only user who has proper access is my six-year old! All other user logins seem essentially to be pointing to nothing, and in my case I can only access my folders through my sons user area.

The error messages when I try to login as me are as follows

'There was an error setting up interprocess communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was

"Could not read network connection list

/home/john/.DCOPserver_erskine__1

Please check that the "DCOPserver" program is running"

I clicked OK, and the next error message was

'Will not save configuration

Configuration file "/home/john/.kde/share/config/ksplashrc" not writeable

Configuration file "home/john/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals" not writeable

please contact your system administrator

the blue KDE icon screen then comes up - with message 'setting up interprocess communication' with blue fill bar appearing but not filling

Then there's a further error message

'the following installation problems was detected while trying to start KDE:

'No write access to $HOME directory (/home/john) KDE is unable to start

I clicked OK

'Could not start KSMserver. Check your installation.'

I then clicked OK againn, and returned to my six year-olds area

Any ideas about how I can restore the connection?

Best wishes

John Erskine

Hi John, I am having a similar problem when I boot my machine running Suse 9.1 Pro.
First it says that the configuration file //.kde/share/config/krootimagerc is not writable
and that the //.kde/share/config/kdeglobals is not writable
Then, an error dialog box appears saying
Error setting up inter-process communications for KDE
Could not read network connection list
//.DCOPserver_linux__0
check that dcopserver program is running\
Then again
//.kde/share/config/ksplashrc not writable and
//.kde/share/congig/kdeglobals not writable and
No write access to $HOME directory (/)
I am new to linux and am running most of the time as root but have set up 1 user account to see how it works,
I would also like to know how installing applications in different folders affect different users.
I'll get back if i resolve the former issue.
Regards,
Teddy

I'm also running Suse (9.1) with NIS/NFS on the machine that had the same errors as yours. I only get these errors when logging in to a host with a user that is from a NIS server.

I have noticed a few other users with different distributions having the same errors coming through.

Some people have recommended using Gnome (and other windowmanagers instead) but I've tried this which hasn't worked.

I've also tried individually fixing each error described, e.g. changing permissions to the relevant KDE files mentioned and also the user's home directory -- no luck...

I know your post was a while ago but I'll keep looking as well and if I find anything... I'll be right back...

Oops - just posted same error with Mandrake 10.1 install

No solution yet?

mv /home/username/.kde /home/username/.kde-old

Environment:
1. Using SUSE 9.3 Pro (with most updated online patches through YOU)
2. Toshiba Satellite Pro (P4, NVIDIA, 512MB)

Start GNUCash 1.8.9
Click Edit/Style Sheets
Click New

System crashed, hanged and harddisk not stop spinning.

I had to reboot.
SUSE login screen appear.
Login as user and root. Both gave me the following error message:

=======================================================================

could not read network connection list
/root/.DCOPserver_<hostname>__0
Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!

=======================================================================

Any help to solve this is appreciated.
BTW, it seems that SUSE LINUX bootup OK. Because I am now using TWM instead. It
is just KDE.

Thanks,
Jaf Faizal