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Date:      Sun, 15 Feb 2004 05:23:31 -0600
From:      Bryan Cassidy <b_cassidy@bellsouth.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [kde-freebsd] KDE 3.2 + startx errors (dcopserver)
Message-ID:  <20040215112331.GA376@bellsouth.net>
In-Reply-To: <200402151048.40069.andy@athame.co.uk>
References:  <20040215091955.GA24271@bellsouth.net> <200402151048.40069.andy@athame.co.uk>

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OK. That problem fixed. Now when I 'startx' It hangs when Loading
Peripherals and then the splash screen goes away and it just sits there
making me have to do a Control+Alt+Backspace. Any ideas?

On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 10:48:39AM +0200, Andy Fawcett wrote:
>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=20
>they are:
>
>-rw------- youruser yourgroup
>
>A.
>
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