From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 29 13:38:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from imf03bis.bellsouth.net (mail203.mail.bellsouth.net [205.152.58.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B772C37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 13:38:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from leimbacd@bellsouth.net) Received: from mutt.home.net ([208.63.160.25]) by imf03bis.bellsouth.net (InterMail vM.5.01.01.01 201-252-104) with ESMTP id <20010729203930.CMJF16790.imf03bis.bellsouth.net@mutt.home.net>; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:39:30 -0400 Received: (from dave@localhost) by mutt.home.net (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f6TKhAt73936; Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:43:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dave) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: David Leimbach To: Bob Collins , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DCOPserver and kde 2 Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:43:10 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] References: <20010729161359.A1531@kludge.pineypl> In-Reply-To: <20010729161359.A1531@kludge.pineypl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072915431001.23557@mutt.home.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 29 July 2001 15:13, Bob Collins wrote: > This question has been asked before and received no answer of > significant help, so I shall pose it again in a different way. > I just went through some issues with DCOP so I will try to help. :) > I do not want to reinstall the system, as we know that is only a > reasonable solution for one well-known OS! ;) Don't then :) Try checking the existence of the following: /tmp drwxrwxrwt 2 root wheel 1024 Jul 29 09:06 .ICE-unix drwx------ 3 dave wheel 512 Jul 29 12:28 kde-dave drwx------ 2 dave wheel 1536 Jul 29 15:31 ksocket-dave drwx------ 2 dave wheel 512 Jul 29 09:06 mcop-dave The dave files are for the users named dave :). Note the sticky bit on the .ICE-unix directory... this is pretty important :). The directory is used to store DCOP socket connections from users. Each user's home directory will have the following: 15:40:06] -> ls -la | grep DCOP lrwxr-xr-x 1 dave wheel 39 Jul 21 18:05 .DCOPserver_mutt.home.net -> /home/dave/.DCOPserver_mutt.home.net_:0 -rw-r--r-- 1 dave wheel 43 Jul 29 09:06 .DCOPserver_mutt.home.net_:0 You should be able to just delete these two files as the startkde program should re-generate them for you. I had to mess with both of the above to get KDE back up and running after I accidentally clobbered them myself. > > Thanks for your time > -Bob No prob! :) Dave > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message