I am running FC4 and it has been running without problem until last night. I was messing around with Winetools and getting everything set up. I was also trying to install Gstreamer and having some problems with that installation and never got it completed. However now most applications that I try to run, usually games that are Linux based and downloaded and installed using yum, come up with an error message if I try to run them using a terminal, if I run them by clicking them I get nothing. Here is the message I receive:

[Will@localhost ~]$ neverball
Creating link /home/Will/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain.
can't create mcop directory
[Will@localhost ~]$

Again, none of this started until last night, I tried to google it out and came up short on any solutions. I am still fairly new with Linux, I am running in Gnome, so I am not even sure why it shows a reference to KDE.

Chances are that you accidentally altered permissions and/or
ownerships inside your home and/or /tmp-directories.... check
the perms in your home
ls -l ~
and
ls -l /tmp
should be good starting points. If you find mcop files in either
that are read-only or owned by root or some other user, become root
and chown/chmod them.


Cheers,
Tink

I checked both directories as you stated, and neither has a mcop file, matter of fact neither has any files that are restricted by read-only or root.

Try (as root)
find /home -iname "*mcop*" -exec ls -l {} \;


Cheers,
Tink

This is what I came back with, still nothing to change, any other thoughts?


[root@localhost Will]# find /home -iname "*mcop*" -exec ls -l {} \;
total 0

Does ~/.kde actually exist?

And also run that find against /tmp

tried it under /tmp without any problems, /.kde exists under my home/Will directory

I have exactly the same problem. It is just since I updated fc4 with yum. Tried to reinstall the latest and previous kdelibs package, but I still get the same error, "can't create mcop directory."

Somebody must have slipped in a bad package somwhere which is going to affect everyone running Fedora Core 4, who updates with yum.

Hello,
I have exact same problem described.
I tried this; it seems fixed now.
[admin@DellLin ~]$ find ~ -iname "*mcop*" -exec chmod 766 {} \;
Firewing1

I got this same error:
Creating link /home/Will/.kde/socket-localhost.localdomain.
can't create mcop directory

after updating to a new Arts rpm (arts-1.5.0-0.1.fc4) from the fedora repositories. There is now an even newer rpm available (arts-1.5.0-0.2.fc4) that fixes the issue for me. Supertux lives again...

same here....
Firewing1

Yup, getting the latest version of arts fixed it for me too. Now I can go back to some linux gaming....

I know this is an old thread. But I figured I would post for archiving reasons. I had a similar problem when I tried to start cmus on Ubuntu Dapper. But only after I had installed certain KDE packages.

I THINK (As in just guessing here)
the reason is that when the application detects certain packages it thinks it is in a KDE environment, though it is actually a GNOME environment just with basic KDE packages installed. Thus it tries to link to a directory that would probably be created at start up if i were a system that used KDE.

But anyway what fixed it for me was to simply create the directory in /tmp/ it needs. With:

When I figured that it worked I made the fix permanent. First I moved the ordinary cmus executeable:
then I created a script to load cmus with, use your favorite editor, mine is emacs (This should now be an empty file or something went wrong with moving the executeable):
Here add the sommands:
save and exit. And finally make the script executeable:
Now I can just execute "cmus" just I always used to do

Regards TLE02

Solved for me, tle02.

That was exactly my problem, but when trying to use linphone instead of your cmus.

Thanks a lot!

tle02, i had the same problem, i guess it's because i installed krdc (and i'm using xfce instead of kde).. just by creating the directory that the program needs it solves the problem

Thanks!