Hi Brian,
Well asked. I remember having a similar problem a while back, with KDE 3.1
after I compiled it from source myself (on a Debian system, not that it's
relevant). Anyway, I don't think anything is fundamentally broken - I seem to
remember, although it was quite some time ago and my memory is fuzzy, that I
had an environment variable set wrong somewhere. Unless I am getting mixed
up, which is quite possible, I think I added something to the
/usr/local/bin/startkde script (maybe be in /usr/bin on your system?) setting
KDEDIR=/usr/local/ (for that is where I have installed it), and something
else... I think something that points to the binaries, perhaps called
something like 'KDEBIN' although I can not find it now.
I have tried, now, to reproduce the error - and I can't :-/
So I might very well be talking out my ass ;)
But my hunch is that the startkde script can't find the correct location to
start 'dcop' from. If I do:
~$ ls /usr/local/bin/*dcop*
/usr/local/bin/dcop /usr/local/bin/dcopidl /usr/local/bin/dcopref
/usr/local/bin/dcopstart
/usr/local/bin/dcopclient /usr/local/bin/dcopidl2cpp
/usr/local/bin/dcopserver /usr/local/bin/kdcop
/usr/local/bin/dcopfind /usr/local/bin/dcopobject
/usr/local/bin/dcopserver_shutdown
I see that I have a lot of stuff in my bin directory with 'dcop' in the name.
Check that you have at least something in there, probably bin/dcop at the
very least. Just in case your installation _is_ borked and you somehow didn't
get dcop installed.
But yeah, I'm pretty sure it's a simple matter of setting something like
KDEDIR in the startkde script. Maybe also check that your QTDIR environment
variable points somewhere useful.
On my system:
~$ echo $QTDIR
/usr/local/qt
That's about all I can think of right now. It's annoying, this problem looks
_so_familiar_ to me, and I just can't nail it down. Anyway, hope this helps.
Cheers,
Gareth
On Thursday 31 July 2003 10:14, Brian Connell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> although I have had Linux on my Computer for some time....Redhat at one
> time, Mandrake9 now.
> I'm still just basically a point and clicker.
>
> So I decided to try to install gentoo, as a means of learning more about
> Linux.
> And as Yoda might have remarked............... Learning I am.
>
> I started with the stage3 livecd, as I only have dialup 56K connection,
> and installed by chrooting from
> my existing Mdk9 distro.
>
> It's taken me over 2 weeks so far, but I'm almost there. : ) I
> couldn't believe how long it took to emerge X and KDE.
> Also I had probs. with my USB mouse and Geforc4 card, among other things,
>
> However the thing I'm stuck on at the moment is when I type "startx"
> from the prompt ....as root presently, although I have
> tried adding a user to no avail .... kde tries to start, I get the
> kde-3.1 startup screen, then a popup message box saying ....
>
> "error setting up inter-process communications for kde.
> could not read network connection list /root/.DCOPServer_127.0.0.1 local
> host _0
> please check that dcopserver is running"
>
> .......I am then returned to the prompt,where there are other
> interesting messages waiting such as....
>
> DCOPClient: attachInternal. attach failed authentification rejected,
> reason ..none of the authentification protocols specified
> are supported and host based authentification failed.
> ICE connection rejected.
> kdeinit DCOPServer could not be started.
> Warning: connect ( ) failed: connection refused.
> Error: can't contact kdeinit (end).....
> I originally wrote this down longhand, so may have lost something in
> the retelling, but I think its accurate.
>
> I have tried googling on this one, and have found nothing useful, except
> that heaps of other folks are having the same problem.
> The advice on the net seemed to range from the arcane to the heroic,
> and I really don't want to mess up the distro at this stage,
> if I can avoid it, hoping someone can help.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Connell.
