[olug] KDE and dcopserver

[Nate Rotschafer]

dcopserver is typically started from the start-kde script.  Typically with 
Red Hat installs the problems tend to revolve around broken paths.  One of 
the install programs may have messed up your path and the manual start of 
dcopserver may have fixed it...

Nate


>From: Terence Bradshaw <tbradshaw at tconl.com>
>Reply-To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org>
>To: olug at olug.org
>Subject: [olug] KDE and dcopserver
>Date: 21 Apr 2003 16:35:10 -0500
>
>Hi, all-
>
>I am running Red Hat 9, and recently switched to KDE as my desktop of
>choice.  I may switch back to Gnome...not yet decided.
>
>This all happened a few days ago, so some details are murky.
>
>I was doing some installs (WineX 3 for one) and rebooted the machine
>later that evening... don't remember why.  After signing in, I issued my
>startx command.  KDE began initializing, but it stopped after a while
>with one of the icons in the splash screen flashing.  It then said
>something about DCOPserver not running.  Reboots, including a cold boot
>changed nothing (I know... reboot is a Windows technique, but I am a
>Windows convert... still learning).
>
>I then tried issuing "dcopserver" which replied with no message, so I
>then decided to try startx again.  Viola, everything ran fine.
>
>I left the machine up for several days, and decided for grins to reboot
>and see what I got.  KDE started up fine without having to manually
>start dcopserver.
>
>Anyone know how dcopserver is ordinarily invoked?  Could the installs
>have messed things up?  How did it get cleared up?  Did manually
>starting it get some initialization setting restored?
>
>Thanks for helping a newbie.
>
>Terry
>
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