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meta-kde package

Unhelpful "DCOP communications error (Konqueror)" on login

Bug #87470 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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meta-kde (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Ubuntu 6.10

On logging in to Ubuntu, an error message appeared:

DCOP communications error (Konqueror)
There was an error setting up inter-process communication for KDE. The message returned by the system was:
Could not open network socket
Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!
( OK )

This message is not helpful to anyone not versed in the ways of the terminal. I've never heard of "dcopserver", and it's not in any of the menus. So how am I supposed to check whether it's running? What am I supposed to do if it isn't? And what is the point of the exclamation mark?

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

1) were you logged on as root?

2) what is the output of ls -la ~/.kde ?

3) were you logging on to gnome, or kde?

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

My problem isn't with the dcopserver failure itself; that seems to be bug 75069. My problem is with the error message being unhelpful.

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Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

ah. true.

I'm surprised it's coming up at all, actually.

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guilin (guilin45) wrote :

yeah
i ve the problem too , so my k3b can´t open ,the knetworkmanager doesnt open and all with the same message , cant read network connection your dcopserver is not running, so all what have too do with kde dont work
how i repaire this ,

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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :

Hmm, I don't think it's possible for this error to appear in Intrepid since KDE4 uses DBUS. I'll close this. Thanks for the bug report.

Changed in meta-kde:
status: New → Fix Released
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teseglet (mobil1guru) wrote :

Just got this error in intrepid after trying to launch amarok just loaded on ubuntu

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