Was this problem (see below) ever solved? I'm having a very similar problem now but the thread seems to trail off without resolution. The thread I'm referring to dates back to 4 Aug '06. Alexander Hansen wrote at the time "... seminal article in this thread is http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners/18690";.
I'm running OS X 10.5.5 and Xcode 3.1 with the Xquartz 2.3.0 X window system. When I run an application that relies DCOP interprocess communication (e.g., konsole, kdeinit, kate, kile, kdevelop, koctave, ...), I get an alert box with ------------- There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list. /Users/StrangeHeim/.DCOPserver_terry-foremans-macbook-pro.local__tmp_launch-hEMiil__0 Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running! -------------- Messages like this come to the terminal: ----------------- bash-$ kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Address already in use Could not bind to socket '/private/var/folders/4A/4ApIoqASHL0dqfypa5B0Q++++TI/-Tmp-/ksocket-StrangeHeim/kdeinit_/tmp/launch-hEMiiI/_0' Assertion failed: (d->notifier), function suspend, file /sw/src/fink.build/kdelibs3-unified-3.5.9-2/kdelibs-3.5.9/dcop/dcopclient.cpp, line 693. KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2 KCrash: Application Name = kate path = <unknown> pid = 11322 Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly. kdeinit: Aborting. bind() failed: : Address already in use Could not bind to socket '/private/var/folders/4A/4ApIoqASHL0dqfypa5B0Q++++TI/-Tmp-/ksocket-StrangeHeim/kdeinit_/tmp/launch-hEMiiI/_0' -------------- After that, the application may or may not succeed in launching. If it DOES launch, it will spew hundreds of lines of diagnostic messages to the command line terminal as it runs and seems to be impaired in operation. The output from ls -lad ~/.* is ------------ drwxr-xr-x 63 StrangeHeim staff 2142 Sep 18 10:04 /Users/StrangeHeim/. drwxr-xr-x 7 root admin 238 Aug 17 20:12 /Users/StrangeHeim/.. -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 3 Jul 12 01:22 /Users/StrangeHeim/.CFUserTextEncoding -rw-r--r-- 1 StrangeHeim staff 81 Aug 31 20:21 /Users/StrangeHeim/.DCOPserver_terry-foremans-macbook-pro.local__tmp_launch-rPFC0s__0 -rw-r--r--@ 1 StrangeHeim staff 21508 Sep 17 15:55 /Users/StrangeHeim/.DS_Store -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 484 Aug 31 20:21 /Users/StrangeHeim/.ICEauthority drwx------ 5 StrangeHeim staff 170 Sep 17 11:40 /Users/StrangeHeim/.Trash -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 395 Sep 16 15:21 /Users/StrangeHeim/.Xauthority drwxr-xr-x 2 StrangeHeim staff 68 Jul 13 21:01 /Users/StrangeHeim/.Xcode -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 10078 Sep 16 16:07 /Users/StrangeHeim/.bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 StrangeHeim staff 105 Aug 24 09:01 /Users/StrangeHeim/.bash_profile -rw-r--r--@ 1 StrangeHeim staff 1094 Aug 24 09:07 /Users/StrangeHeim/.bashrc drwx------ 3 StrangeHeim staff 102 Aug 5 18:22 /Users/StrangeHeim/.config drwx------ 3 StrangeHeim staff 102 Jul 28 12:37 /Users/StrangeHeim/.cups drwx------ 8 StrangeHeim staff 272 Sep 18 09:46 /Users/StrangeHeim/.ddd drwxr-xr-x 6 StrangeHeim staff 204 Sep 16 15:29 /Users/StrangeHeim/.fontconfig drwxr-xr-x 9 StrangeHeim staff 306 Sep 16 15:29 /Users/StrangeHeim/.fonts -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 6 Sep 18 09:46 /Users/StrangeHeim/.gdb_history drwx------ 2 StrangeHeim staff 68 Jul 15 22:29 /Users/StrangeHeim/.gnome2 -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 372 Aug 13 16:08 /Users/StrangeHeim/.gnuplot_history drwx------ 10 StrangeHeim staff 340 Aug 25 14:47 /Users/StrangeHeim/.kde -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 113 Sep 16 15:37 /Users/StrangeHeim/.lesshst drwx------ 3 StrangeHeim staff 102 Aug 5 16:54 /Users/StrangeHeim/.local drwx------ 2 StrangeHeim staff 68 Aug 4 16:19 /Users/StrangeHeim/.macports drwxr-xr-x 4 StrangeHeim staff 136 Sep 5 17:35 /Users/StrangeHeim/.matlab drwxr-xr-x 3 StrangeHeim staff 102 Jul 24 13:43 /Users/StrangeHeim/.mcop drwxr-xr-x 9 StrangeHeim staff 306 Sep 1 20:32 /Users/StrangeHeim/.mupadpro40 drwxr-xr-x 10 StrangeHeim staff 340 Aug 6 09:48 /Users/StrangeHeim/.nedit -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 1287 Aug 31 19:43 /Users/StrangeHeim/.octave_hist -rw-r--r--@ 1 StrangeHeim staff 46 Aug 24 08:59 /Users/StrangeHeim/.profile drwxr-xr-x 6 StrangeHeim staff 204 Aug 20 22:05 /Users/StrangeHeim/.qt -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 231 Sep 17 18:02 /Users/StrangeHeim/.serverauth.2287 -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 77 Aug 12 14:30 /Users/StrangeHeim/.serverauth.2663 -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 231 Aug 13 07:47 /Users/StrangeHeim/.serverauth.58487 drwx------ 6 StrangeHeim staff 204 Jul 15 09:15 /Users/StrangeHeim/.terminator drwxr-xr-x 4 StrangeHeim staff 136 Jul 15 09:09 /Users/StrangeHeim/.terminfo drwx------ 4 StrangeHeim staff 136 Aug 5 18:39 /Users/StrangeHeim/.thumbnails -rw------- 1 root staff 727 Aug 18 17:09 /Users/StrangeHeim/.viminfo -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 192 Aug 5 16:57 /Users/StrangeHeim/.xcompmgrrc -rw------- 1 StrangeHeim staff 576 Aug 24 12:22 /Users/StrangeHeim/.xdvirc drwxrwxrwx 11 StrangeHeim staff 374 Aug 14 12:13 /Users/StrangeHeim/.xemacs --------------- so I don't think I've got an "owned by root" problem. echo $DISPLAY gives /tmp/launch-hEMiiI/:0 I'm not trying to run remotely. I don't have a good grasp of the concept-of-operation of running X11 under MAC OS X. Could this be as simple as not having the right things in a .profile or .bashrc or .xinitrc? Thanks R/ Terry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
