dcopserver

**rrfish72** · 07-12-2004, 04:16 AM

Installed knoppix to my hard drive. All went fine but when I log in to the KDE desktop I get an error message that tells me make sure dcopserver is running.

Any idea what this means? Anyone.

When the system is loading I notiiced that it says error when loading pci hotplug. Does that have anything to do with it.

**Markus** · 07-12-2004, 09:24 AM

Could be that it can't mount /home. Did you use an existing home partition? If yes, post your /etc/fstab

This is what I have as permissions in my home directory for DCOPserver:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 markus markus 39 Jul 12 10:44 .DCOPserver_fujibox_:0 -> /home/markus/.DCOPserver_fujibox__0
-rw-r--r-- 1 markus markus 58 Jul 12 10:44 .DCOPserver_fujibox__0

**rrfish72** · 07-12-2004, 04:56 PM

What would be the existing home partition?

I installed to a different partition that is 4.5 GB that was existing but unformatted.

**Markus** · 07-12-2004, 05:56 PM

I just thought that it could be a problem if you installed Knoppix but retained and old home partition from a previous install.
If that's not the the case all I can think of right now is:

Code:

su
chmod 1777 /tmp/.ICE-unix

**rrfish72** · 07-12-2004, 09:51 PM

That is exactly what I did.
Where do I go to fix this with what info I've been given?

I didn't try the other yet.

**Markus** · 07-13-2004, 07:17 AM

For starters post your /etc/fstab
I had some trouble with the same thing a while back, IIRC I solved it by renaming ~/.kde and the ~/.DCOPserverfiles

**rrfish72** · 07-13-2004, 05:47 PM

How is that done?

I'm new to linux and really don't know too much about it..

**Markus** · 07-13-2004, 06:07 PM

Do: cat /etc/fstab in a shell (monitor icon on the kicker in kde). Then highlight it with the left mouse-button and click the middle button here to paste it in.
For renaming files/directories do as user:
cd
mv .kde .kdeOLD
If you still have the knoppix generated home you can copy over the DCOPserver files to your current home partition. Probably easiest when running the cd so that you can see both homes.