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List:       kde-linux
Subject:    Re: [kde-linux] DCOP Authentication Failure
From:       Sean McGlynn <sean () tmiau ! com>
Date:       2002-04-13 15:01:03
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I think Dralan was on the right track.

In startx you'll probably have lines like these

# set up default Xauth info for this machine
mcookie=`mcookie`
serverargs="$serverargs -auth $HOME/.Xauthority"
xauth add $display . $mcookie
xauth add `hostname -f`$display . $mcookie

The mcookie stuff is needed by DCOP for authorisation over ICE AFAIK.
If that 'hostname -f' is screwing up (hence your 'hostname: Unknown host' 
error message) then maybe the results of the xauth commands in .Xauthority 
might be messing up DCOP down the line. Just guessing here of course.

Does the command 'hostname -f' indeed return 'hostname: Unknown host'?
What are the contents of /etc/hostname?


On Saturday 13 April 2002 13:53, Peter Hiltz wrote:
> Followed Sean's instructions and cleaned up everything.
>
> Notes:
> 1. This is on a Gentoo Linux system, so devfs is being used.
> 2. No dcop files in /tmp to remove
> 3. No dcop or .ICEauthority files in /home/wol
> 4. /etc/hosts is
> 	127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain           localhost
> 	192.168.1.5     scruppy.peterhiltz.com          scruppy
> 5. Two runs are shown below, one with startx, no .xinitrc file, just X with
> twm, the second with .xinitrc file having the single command startkde
>
 <snip type='big'/>

Cheers,
Sean
-- 
Sean McGlynn
sean@tmiau.com
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