I have this thread posted under the hdd/instal forum authored by me
its an error that occurs after the login wizard appears for the first time
i have tried re installing but to no avail.
it was a standard partition setup and install via the consol from the su root command then i hit knx2hd and install occured but i still cant bott after hd installation

can anyone shed any light on this one?
heres the error vebatim

There was an error setting up inter-processes communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not network connection list. //.DCOPserver_computername__0
please check that the "dcop server" program is running

after hitting ok second error message

Will not save configuration.
Configuration file "//.kde/share/config/kwinrc"
configuration file "//.kde/share/config/kdeglobals" not writeable please contact system admin.

then the above message comes up again a couple of time then the wizard starts up. After wizard

The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE.
No write access to $HOME directory (/).
KDE is unable to start.