Mark Zastrow wrote: > Hi, I'm relatively inexperienced when it comes to Unix but I did > manage to compile Amarok using fink a few months ago. It had been > working fine until a few days ago, when it started to give me an error > message when starting it from the X11 applications menu: > > DCOP communications error (Amarok) > There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. > The message returned by the system was: > Could not read network connection list. > /Users/username/.DCOPserver_hostname.local___0 > Please check that "dcopserver" program is running! > > After I click OK, Amarok starts up normally, with the only problem I > can tell being that when I play a file, the "last played" column won't > update until the next time I load Amarok. Still, it's been bugging > me, especially since it was working before, which means I must've > screwed something up... > > I've found tips for this problem under Ubuntu which say to make sure > that the ownership on KDE files isn't set to root, but I'm not sure > what the equivalent files to check under OS X and fink are. I do know > my ~/.kde folder ownership is set to my user name. > > Sorry if this is the wrong list. Thanks for any help! It's greatly > appreciated. > > Mark Zastrow > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Were you running it from the X11 Applications menu before, or from a terminal window? The former needs a bit of special tweaking in the case of programs that run other Fink-installed programs.
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