can't start x
 

Hallo, I just installed Slackware 10.2 at work (not connected to the internet).
It boots up in CLI mode. When I want to startx it works perfectly as a root, however, when I am logged in as a normal user, it gets the following error:

There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was:
Could not read network connection list
//.DCOPserver_linhost_0
Please check that the dcopserver is running


How can I check it? What am I supposed to do?
One more thing, When I was creating normal users
I just
1. useradd name_of_user
2.created the password for each user

There are no user directories in /home directory
That may be the reason. How can I assign home directories to particular users?
thank you

You can use adduser to create users (which creates also their homedirs). Else you have create them manually and then change the ownership

Try using the 'adduser' command. It should then create the other info for users. password, home directory etc.

Users & Home Directories!
 

When adding a user you can specify their home directory and group with the below command : -
[root@newbie tmp]# useradd -g users -d /home/user1

Then define their passwords with : -
[root@newbie tmp]# passwd user1

:scratch: I can't help with the X problem

;) I am also a Linux :newbie:

I used useradd -d /home/client client
passwd client....etc

to create user: client
and home directory: /home/client

everthing seems ok, apart from the fact that it doesn't
create the user directory, and when I log in as a user in runlevel 3, Iget

No directory, logging in with HOME=/

Ok, fixed
I just created users from GUI, and the home directories have been created, and that is why,
startx works now with any user.
btw, i still don't know what was wrong with my cli commands:(

Oh, I'm dumb--fixed it
 

Yeah, besides the lengthy post prior to this one..I forgot to chmod my /. under my user, which is why .kde couldn't write a new session.
After that, I chmodded it home/<username>/.* which may or may not have been a requirement, and PRESTO startx-->KDE.
Sorry for wasting any time you spent looking at this, if it helps great, if it's gibberish, post back as I have email notification up and am willing to help as long as I don't break your box. I do know the difference, too...not a hero/just another happy n00b w/ experience