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From: Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk>
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	Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy@bellsouth.net>
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Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE 3.2 + startx errors (dcopserver)
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On Sunday 15 February 2004 11:19, Bryan Cassidy wrote:
> I am running FreeBSD 4.9 and have just installed KDE 3.2 from the
> ports without any errors. I know for a fact I have X configured so it
> couldnt be that. I added exec startkde to my .xinitrc file and ran
> 'startx' and I get the following
>
> There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE.
> The message returned by the system was:
>
> could not read network connection list
> /home/usr/.DCOPserver_bsdjunky.homeunix.org__0
>
> Please check that the dcopserver program is running.
>
> Second error I get is
>
> Will not save configuration
> Configuration file "/home/usr/.kde/share/config/kwinrc" not writable
>
> Configuration file "/home/usr/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals" not
> writable
>
> Please contact your system admin.
>
>  I have tried running 'dcopserver' as usr and as root with no
> success. Any help would be appreciated.

As root:
chown -R youruser:yourgroup /home/usr/.kde
should fix it.

If not, you need to check the permissions of those files, and ensure 
they are:

-rw------- youruser yourgroup

A.

-- 
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