although I have had Linux on my Computer for some time....Redhat at one time, Mandrake9 now.
I'm still just basically a point and clicker.
So I decided to try to install gentoo, as a means of learning more about Linux.
And as Yoda might have remarked............... Learning I am.
I started with the stage3 livecd, as I only have dialup 56K connection, and installed by chrooting from
my existing Mdk9 distro.
It's taken me over 2 weeks so far, but I'm almost there. : ) I couldn't believe how long it took to emerge X and KDE.
Also I had probs. with my USB mouse and Geforc4 card, among other things,
However the thing I'm stuck on at the moment is when I type "startx" from the prompt ....as root presently, although I have
tried adding a user to no avail .... kde tries to start, I get the kde-3.1 startup screen, then a popup message box saying ....
"error setting up inter-process communications for kde.
could not read network connection list /root/.DCOPServer_127.0.0.1 local host _0
please check that dcopserver is running"
.......I am then returned to the prompt,where there are other interesting messages waiting such as....
DCOPClient: attachInternal. attach failed authentification rejected, reason ..none of the authentification protocols specified
are supported and host based authentification failed.
ICE connection rejected.
kdeinit DCOPServer could not be started.
Warning: connect ( ) failed: connection refused.
Error: can't contact kdeinit (end)..... I originally wrote this down longhand, so may have lost something in the retelling, but I think its accurate.
I have tried googling on this one, and have found nothing useful, except that heaps of other folks are having the same problem.
The advice on the net seemed to range from the arcane to the heroic, and I really don't want to mess up the distro at this stage,
if I can avoid it, hoping someone can help.
Thanks, Brian Connell.
