Hi,
Well, here's the problem... Installed KDE packages in Ubuntu... and went to reboot (and the system won't boot up).... The error messages are quite repetitious, so here is a summary...
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PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 0000:00.02.1
(appears in the boot process)
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Error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not read network connection list.
/home/ebhakta/.DCOPserver_Goloka-Orbiter_0
Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!
OK
I have had this in Slackware trying to run kde progs under openbox sometimes. I just run "kdeinit" from a console and it starts dcopserver and other things as needed. These should be started when you try to run a kde session though.
Will not save configuration. (repeated many times in the boot process, with the following results...)
Configuration file... not writable.
1) ..."/home/ebhakta/.kde/share/config/kwinrc"
2) ..."/home/ebhakta/.kde/share/config/kbuildsycocarc"
3) ..."/home/ebhakta/.kde/share/config/ksplashrc"
4) ..."/home/ebhakta/.kde/share/config/kwinrc"
5) ..."/home/ebhakta/.kde/share/config/kpersonalizerrc"
(each one of these appearing at different steps in the process)
Configuration file... not writable.
..."/home/ebhakta/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals"
(appears with each one of the above)
Try checking the permissions on these files. You need to get to a console to do this. CTRL-ALT-F1 as per Gareths post.
ls -lR .kde/share/config/ all the files on my Slackware have permissions such as... -rw------- 1 tjpick users 304 2004-10-16 10:47 kwinrc
Try removing all your kde config stuff if the permissions all look bad... mv ~/.kde ~/.kdeold
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> The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:
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> No write access to '/home/ebhakta/.ICEauthority'
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> KDE is unable to start.
check permissions as above.
On the whole it looks like your KDE install is kinda hosed.
Not sure what else Ubuntu has but can you start a blackbox/fluxbox/fvwm/other session?
