Can't login - "could not start kdeinit"
 

Hi all. I'm running Kubuntu 6.06.
My computer crashed (a hardware issue) and I had to do a hard reboot. When I got back onto Kubuntu and tried to login in, it failed.

The first message that popped up read:
"Could not start kdeinit, check your installation."

I clicked "okay" and the next message read:
"...Error setting up inter-process communication for KDE...
Could not read network connection list.
/home/username/.DCOPserver_username_desktop__0
...Check that "dcopserver" program is running!"

I opened up a terminal login and did "ps -e | grep dcop" and it showed nothing. So I started the program and tried logging in again but nothing changed. When I try running kdeinit from the terminal it says:
"kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libfam.so.0: cannot read file data: Input/output error"

Having a look around the forums seems to say that I should try reinstalling the kde packages. But being a newbie and all, I'm not sure which packages they are.

Any ideas on how to fix this? Thanks.

You sure you are not able to hear any clicking noises from your HDD?

Seems like a Hard Disk Failure issue.

Don't think it's a hard disk failure. Can't hear any noises and I have no problem accessing any of the disks.

One thing that could cause this is wrong permissions on your home directory and its contents. Make sure you've mounted your /home in case its on another partition.

Resetting the permissions of the home directory should solve your problem.

Try the following command: (as user)

In case you want stricter control over your /home directory, you can try 700 or something like that.

The only thing that I thought it would be a Hard Disk failure is cuz it gave you an Input/Output error.

Usually
 

Yes, that usually works, but sometimes its an operating system issue with that version of Linux. I have went through Edubuntu, Ubuntu, and Kubuntu, and they all did that to me one time or another.

Sometimes - you have to reinstall it to correct the mistake.

~TQ

Yeah I ended up reinstalling it, backed everything up before I did it so it only cost me time. Thanks for your help everyone.

You didn't try that command? ..cuz I think it would have saved you a lot of effort going the long way (reinstalling everything).

I started reinstalling before I read the comment. Plus it gave me an excuse to format and reinstall everything and start a-fresh.

hehe..nice :P