problem running KDE
 

Hi, guys!

Look: I got a new computer, so I made a backup of the hole home in another computer. I installed linux on the new machine, then "rebuilt" my home.... but as it turns out, I could have some problems with the backup. No problem.... I guess most important things are ok.... however, when I try to log into kde, I get a message complaining about not being able to read a file. It's something like:

error in /my/path/dcopserver_<machinename>_0 make sure dcopserver is running

Just to be able to get in here, I created another user... and as you can see, I have no problem using KDE. How can I solve the problem with my "real" user?

try deleting the ~/.DCOPserver_ file and symlink ??
might help
if that doesn't do it try deleting the folder ~/.kde/share/config
if that doesn't work just delete the entire ~/.kde directory
if this is a different version of kde than you had before i'd do that anyway

also i can't imagine that a new installation can deal with an old home folder i any way
you have all those x majic cookie files .Xauthority and .ICEauthority (guess i would delete those as well)
you also want to
chown -R me /home/me
because seems like the user name doesn't have the same number now as it did in the old instalation

I had already tried deleting all those files... but didn't work. I had found a page with a lot of files to delete in case KDE started doing anything but work properly.

What I did to work around this was to copy the whole .kde directory of the auxiliary user I made to MY user..... :O

Well... I can't say it was an elegant solution..... but I did get KDE up and running. Some of the setting s where kept from my user... others I had to reconfigure them... no big deal.

However, I think it was a permission problem. I "think" I ran the chown command before trying all thos tricks... but mozilla gave me another permission problem... so I guess that was the problem.

Bottomline: It's already solved. I thank you for your kind response! :D