But did you read the last line of this post?........ "Spoke too soon. It came up fine from console, but reboot didn't."
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 31 July 2003 10:23 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: gentoo starts - startkde fails hey brian, take a look at this thread: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33244&highlight=dcopclient and try emerge fam-oss (whatever the hell that is!) On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 10:14:50 +1200 Brian Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > 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. > > > > > > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
