Mark Zastrow wrote:
> I was running it from the X11 Applications menu, with the command
> . /sw/bin/init.sh ; amarok
> Is that not correct?  It had been working for me before...  Thanks for 
> your reply!
>
> Mark Zastrow
>
That would indeed be correct.  I'll give it a quick look-see when I'm 
back on my Mac to see if I get similar issues.

> On May 17, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>


-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink User Liaison/Documenter
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