From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 25 14:51:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sccmmhc01.mchsi.com (sccmmhc01.mchsi.com [204.127.203.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E17637B405 for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 14:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from there ([12.218.70.104]) by sccmmhc01.mchsi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with SMTP id <20020325225125.CGFB1219.sccmmhc01.mchsi.com@there> for ; Mon, 25 Mar 2002 22:51:25 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Hummel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What is a DCOPserver and What function Do They Serve??? Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 16:56:04 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-Id: <20020325225125.CGFB1219.sccmmhc01.mchsi.com@there> 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 It took me 2 hours to even figure out how to pose this question because my symptoms are so intermittent. I can't even find a man page about these files nor can I find anything in my fbsd books. My desire is to boot directly to KDE, but I don't want to set that up until I can get it to work manually the first time and every time. I have a cable modem set up with my LinkSys NIC which fbsd does recognize quite well as dc0. mhumm2# dmesg|grep dc0 dc0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xd5501000-0xd55010ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx miibus0: on dc0 Running startx begins to bring up the KDE start screen, but then the error occurs: There was an error setting up inter-process communication for KDE. The message returned by the system was: /root/.DCOPserver_mhumm2_:0 Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running! When I click on "ok", I'm sent back to terminal text mode. If I wait for about 1 minute, I can startx again and stand a 50-50 chance of everything working fine (except a fatal sound error, but that's another post). Sometimes it's 1 retry and sometimes it takes 3, but eventually, KDE does come up without a dcopserver error. Here are my config files: mhumm2# cat /etc/rc.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Sat Dec 29 20:50:50 2001 # Created: Sat Dec 29 20:50:50 2001 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf. kern_securelevel_enable="NO" linux_enable="YES" moused_enable="YES" nfs_reserved_port_only="YES" sendmail_enable="NO" sshd_enable="YES" usbd_enable="YES" lpd_enable="YES" ifconfig_dc0="DHCP" hostname="mhumm2" mhumm2#cat /etc/dhclient.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/dhclient.conf,v 1.2 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # # This file is required by the ISC DHCP client. # See ``man 5 dhclient.conf'' for details. # # In most cases an empty file is suffient for most people as the # defaults are usually fine. # interface "dc0" { send host-name; request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-name-servers, domain-name, time-servers; require domain-name-servers; } I don't understand the text in the file /root/.DCOPserver_mhumm2 and /root/.DCOPserver_mhumm2_:0 but here they are: mhumm2# cd /root mhumm2# cat .DCOPserver_mhumm2 local/mhumm2:/tmp/.ICE-unix/504 504 mhumm2# cat .DCOPserver_mhumm2_:0 local/mhumm2:/tmp/.ICE-unix/504 504 And before you ask, "Yes", I am su(ing) to root before I run startx. I saw a reply by Ms. Annelise that touched on this topic, but I'm not clear on it. Please help. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'd like to start helping others on this mailing list, but I've got to understand this stuff first. Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message