On Saturday, June 1, 2002, at 08:08 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> Douglas Wing [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
>> When I launch Xdarwin (with startkde in my .xinitrc) I receive the
>> following
>> error message"
>>
>> 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/wingdo/.DCOPserver_The Ugly Mugly__0
>> Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running.
>>
>> I click OK, and waith a minute or so, another failure message is
>> displayed
>> and then Xdarwin quits.
>>
>> I can see the dcopserver isn't running, but what does that mean and
>> how do I
>> fix it?
>
> What's happening is that KDE uses a set of special files to communicate
> with
> it's local processes. It bases these files on the hostname, so that
> you can
> be logged into multiple machines with the same shared home directory,
> and still
> be able to run without stepping on another machine's session.
>
> To do this, it keys off your hostname... It looks like your hostname
> has
> spaces in it ("The Ugly Mugly") which, as far as I'm aware, is illegal
> on most
> other UNIXes, so KDE is freaking out. I suspect the only way this is
> going to
> work properly is to change your hostname, unless we can find a way to
> hack up
> KDE to translate those filenames.
>
>
Spaces in the hostname can't be the only cause, because I am having the
identical startup error message with the hostname localhost.
Regards,
Bill
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