This happened to me too. There should be some files (they look like symbolic links) in your home directory that are named .DCOPserver*. Check the permissions of those to make sure you own them.
Hope this helps, James Smith On Monday 09 July 2001 10:16am, Attila Sulyok wrote: > <color><param>0100,0100,0100</param>I upgraded from potato to testing. > > I selected the latest Koffice (1.1b3). > > > I have got to the next strange state: > > If I am a user, 'startx' fails with next message: DCOP server couldnot > be started. Typing 'dcopserver' results in 'Aborting, $DISPLAY is not > set.' > > > If I am root, 'startx' runs well and start a complete KDE session. > > > I don't have information about DCOP. I tried to find but without > success. > > Would you inform me about DCOP: what is this abreviation, what is > the config file I have to set, etc. > > > thanks. > > > <nofill>
