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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: startkde
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () sh ! cvut ! cz>
Date:       2002-03-07 9:14:30
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On Thu 7. March 2002 06:52, George Staikos wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 March 2002 23:24, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 March 2002 05:32 pm, George Staikos wrote:
> > > I just fought for an hour with KDE not starting after I upgraded to
> > > XF86 4.2. I don't know why or how, but dcopserver was (silently)
> > > complaining that .ICE-unix was not owned by root.  Indeed it was now. 
> > > However I don't know how this would have changed simply by installing
> > > this rpm.  In any case, I think we should pop up an xmessage if
> > > dcopserver doesn't start up. If anything, at least it will save a few
> > > support emails.
> >
> > ksmserver is supposed to inform you about problems with starting the
> > dcopserver. Doesn't it do that?
>
>    Well maybe the error needs to be verbosified then. :)  Right now it just
> says that ksmserver didn't start up.  It doesn't say that maybe dcopserver
> is the problem or anything like that.  I had to run startkde with bash -xvf
> to actually see the error message.
>
> > What I don't understand is why dcopserver refuses to start when .ICE-unix
> > is not owned by root. I have only heared reports about that it waits for
> > 5 seconds in that case.
>
>     XF86 4.2.  Could that have anything to do with it?

 The message about /tmp/.ICE-unix is only a warning. And I have XF86 4.2 too 
and my KDE started up fine with /tmp/.ICE-unix set to improper permissions. 
You probably have run out of disk space or something like that?

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 Lubos Lunak
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