mccrack_2003 0 Posted November 20, 2003 Good mornin pplz. Must say that i have not had many problems with Mandrake 8.2 until i tried to install it on one of the PC's @ work. I'm not a complete newb but still finding my way around linux. Anyway, prob is. After a fresh installation yesterday i was able to log into KDE just fine. Bounced the box and now i get this error when starting up KDE. "Could not read network connection list. Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running" . I followed most of the suggestions on dot.kde.org and nothing has resolved this issue, it's probably more whack now. Found the DCOPServer program and tried to start it manually but then got the error "Aborting. $DISPLAY not set" Added the $DISPLAY hostIP:0:0 into the .bash_profile and still did not work. Any ideas would be much appreciated although i am tempted to re-install after struggling the entire day. Thanx Share this post Link to post
Dapper Dan 0 Posted November 20, 2003 I've run into the same problem in Mdk 9.0 and also when experimenting with 9.1 and 9.2. I now use RH 9 with IceWM. Still, it often happens when I try running KDE programs. I've never been able to figure it out.. Share this post Link to post
mccrack_2003 0 Posted November 21, 2003 Well , after struggling for another 4 hours or so i did a re-install . It working now just fine... I dont however think that i am going to find the cause of the problem though. Thanx anyway... Share this post Link to post
hems 0 Posted January 12, 2004 Even I found the same problem creeping in when I did a custom installation of Red Hat Linux 8.0. When I logged in as a normal user say, mickey through KDE, I got the error which you has highlighted. What I found is, there are some files created under /tmp. If /tmp does not have permission, it does not show any errors as you have mentioned, but it never lets you log in. It takes you back to Login screen. Coming to the error which you faced, there is a directory by name, ".ICE-unix" which gets created. So when a user tries to login for the first time, some files are created under this /tmp/.ICE-unix. So if this ".ICE-unix" directory does not have write permission for normal users, it gives you those errors which you have highlighted. I gave full permission to /tmp/.ICE-unix directory, and I was able to login to my new user created. Hope this helps, atleast to someone who is trying to solve the same error. Share this post Link to post
mccrack_2003 0 Posted January 12, 2004 Thanx hems , will bear this in mind should this problem rear it head again. Share this post Link to post
Dapper Dan 0 Posted January 12, 2004 A kind of similar situation, except it's a Gnome problem is this: When I I try to run Balsa, I get this.. Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL: omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0 When I run Nautilus, I get this... GConf error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL: omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0 All further errors shown only on terminal And from the terminal, each of these many times... (nautilus:25279): Eel-WARNING **: GConf error: Configuration server couldn't be contacted: CORBA error: IDL: omg.org/CORBA/BAD_OPERATION:1.0 ** (nautilus:25279): WARNING **: No description found for mime type "a udio/x-pn-windows-acm" (file is "Untitled.wav"), please tell the gnome -vfs mailing list. If I delete .gconf and .gconfd it fixes it but only temporarily. When those files are recreated, it comes back. It doesn't do it when running Evolution, Galeon or any other Gnome app. I've Googled this thing to death, read bug reports and have tried every suggested solution I have found but so far, nothing has worked. Does anyone have ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Share this post Link to post
