Hi ,
after trying Mandriva I think Mepis might be more suitable after using the Live CD for 2 days or so.
I have just done a full install off the CD ,which i thought went without a hitch
dual boots with XP with GRUB
after rebooting now when KDE starts loading, after the login window I get this message & cant get past it
"there was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE the message returned for the system was could not read connection list /root/dcopserver_ricks p4_0 please check that the dcopsever process is running "
as said above I cannot get passed this window ,when OK is clicked the screen goes black for 1 second then back to the same message ,
have i missed something when setting up the install?
thanks for reading
edit google brings up this
www.mepis.org/?q=node/897
being a newb , I dont know what to do I have reinstalled 3 times & still get it
if it was a bad burn [burnt at 2x on a DVD] surely the live CD would baulk also
Rick
Ouch, somewhat ignored over here Rick :( Sorry about that...! I did see this post and stuck it in my bookmarks to remind me then I forgot :/
Quote:"there was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE the message returned for the system was could not read connection list /root/dcopserver_ricks p4_0 please check that the dcopsever process is running "
Ok, so if you do:
Does it return anything? Also try running it as a user rather than root. Another idea might be to remove the configuration files inside the users directories.
Like:
Code:
mv ~/.kde oldkde
mv ~/.DCOPserver_ricksp4__0 olddcop
mv ~/..DCOPserver_tone_:0 olddcoplink
That will basically reset your KDE settings.
Quote:as said above I cannot get passed this window ,when OK is clicked the screen goes black for 1 second then back to the same message ,
That is it attempting to load KDE and starting DCOPserver is one those processes.
I also remember something happening to my tmp dir once that caused a similar issue.. so confirm that it has good permissions:
Code:
ls -ld /tmp
drwxrwxrwt 12 root root 4096 Feb 18 03:21 /tmp
^^ this bit!
If its not the same as mine do:
Quote:... bad burn...
highly unlikely that a bad burn could cause issues on a system that installed fine..