[newbie] Dcopserver

2002-05-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Linux Mandrake 8.2 , Every now and again, upon boot up, I get the message which goes something like, Unable to locate mail something, , please check that your DCOP-SERVER is running. This only happens occassionally, but I do not know what it means. I also notice that in home directory there is a

[newbie] Dcopserver

2002-05-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Linux Mandrake 8.2 , Every now and again, upon boot up, I get the message which goes something like, Unable to locate mail something, , please check that your DCOP-SERVER is running. This only happens occassionally, but I do not know what it means. I also notice that in home directory there is a

Re: [newbie] DCOPserver failure

2001-08-26 Thread Mohammed Arafa
update: dcopserver creates a file in each user's directory called .DCOPserver.localhost.localdomain the reason i couldnt log in to kde was that ALL /home/user directories had owner "nobody", i changed the owner and logged in and even logged onto the net. i would like to thank bascule for giving

Re: [newbie] DCOPserver failure

2001-08-23 Thread bascule
hi, it is possible to have a modem that kppp thinks is fine but doesn't connect, following a lightning strike my modem became like that, i found that it couldn't sustain a dial tone any more, instead of investigating ways round this - like, is a dial tone necessary, is there a initialisation st

[newbie] DCOPserver failure

2001-08-22 Thread Mohammed Arafa
hello over the weekend, there was a brown out at my place and my box went down. i got myself a UPS but now when i switch on there are several problems left: 1. my modem (practical peripherals 33.6k) no longer connects to the internet even tho kppp see the modem and does all the tests 2. when i t

[newbie] DCOPserver

2001-05-29 Thread Danny Gordon
I went to log in as root taday and got this error. There was some error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list /root/.DCOPserver-x1-6-00-80-c8-dd-2f-f8_:0 Please check that the DCOPserver program is runnin