I've just finished doing two things at once - adding another, old hard drive to my PC as the Systems hard drive so I can use the newer, bigger one to store all my experimental stuff and downloads on, and updating my system from Mandrake 9.1 to 9.2. It went fine until I got around setting things up, and then the swearing began in earnest. I got a little note from the login manager: // "There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: could not read network connection list /home/wparish/.DCOPserver_localhost__0 please check that the "dcopserver" program is running." // I got it running as a bare-bones CLI setup, so that's no problem - I booted off one of my Knoppixes, so that's why you're getting this message. What can I do about it, though? What are the files that control the behaviour of the dcopserver? Are there any special configs or magic numbers I should be using? I did have to chown my directory back to me - it had been dissociated from my and my personal group during the Update/Reinstall - would that have had any impact? Any ideas? (Being stuck away from my files is a bummer - besides, there's a Nigerian Scammer out there I want to serious mind-fuck, and terrify out of his wits, meagre as they are, and I can't do that while I'm effectively locked out of my computer.) Any help will be gratefully received. Wesley Parish
