On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:54:35PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote: > I don't use a display manager.. I login at the prompt and then use startx.. > when I start KDE, it shows me the splash screen and hangs at the > "initializing system services" stage... when I look at the .xsession-errors > this is what it has: > > DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket > DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket > DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket > DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket > DCOPServer up and running. > > The funny thing is that when I start kde as root, everything works fine.. so > some permission somewhere is not right I guess.. please let me know if you > have any suggestions...
Is your /tmp directory set with the right permissions? It should be owned by root, mode 1777 (a+rwxt). If not, fix it, and try again. -- Derrik Pates [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]