[NTLUG:Discuss] DCOP server & KDE 3.

[Steve Baker]

I recently upgraded a number of machines at work and at home to SuSE 8.0,
using KDE 3.

Initially, all the systems worked OK - but now I'm getting plagued by
something called the 'dcopserver' which the KDE startup mechanism
claims isn't running.

I'll log in, the KDE progress meter thingy pops up - and then about
a second later there is a dialog box complaining about the dcop server
being dead and telling me about a file called /home/{username}/.DCOPserver_{machinename}_:0

The first couple of times, I managed to get the system to run by removing all vestiges
of this file - and then rebooting - but this doesn't seem to be very reliable as a
mechanism and it's a pain in the posterior.

This doesn't seem to be a SuSE-specific problem - I've also seen it on a Gentoo Linux
box.

Can anyone shed any light on what's happening?



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