Login Problem

[LinuxNewbie7]

Well, yesterday I tried to add another user. It didn't work so I deleted it. While doing that I accidently deleted my only other account. My directory in /home is still there. Anyways, I made my account again(same name and everything), but now when I try to login, I get an error about dcopserver not being running. So I log into root, open up konsole, i become the account im having problems with and type in dcopserver. It says its running fine. So I logout, then try to log back in as brian, again, it does not work, same problem. I do the process all over again, same thing. Anyone have any ideas?

Edit:

Oh yeah, here's the actuall error I get when trying to login.

There was an error settuping up inter-process communications for KDE.
The message returned by the system was:

Could not read Network Connection List.
//: .DCOPserver_192.168.0.1__0

Please check that DCOPserver program is running.

Maybe that can help you out.

[lakerdonald]

Is this dcopserver something that you use?

[LinuxNewbie7]

I've never even heard of it before that error.

[lakerdonald]

so then it's not an issue? it's just that you want KDE to shutup about it?

[LinuxNewbie7]

Oh yeah, forgot to mention a big factor. Because of this error, it won't let me login.

[lakerdonald]

now can you login command line?

[LinuxNewbie7]

Yes

[sdousley]

i get the same error

I think it's from when i reformatted my /home from reiser to ext3 from within gentoo. Tho not sure bout how to solve it

[accmariano]

Try

delete all /tmp stuff
from your home
delete ~/.ICEauthority*
delete ~/.DCOPServer_*

These files are recreated in next KDE login

maybe this error can be cause by a not clean reboot.

Hope it help

Well, yesterday I tried to add another user. It didn't work so I deleted it. While doing that I accidently deleted my only other account. My directory in /home is still there. Anyways, I made my account again(same name and everything), but now when I try to login, I get an error about dcopserver not being running. So I log into root, open up konsole, i become the account im having problems with and type in dcopserver. It says its running fine. So I logout, then try to log back in as brian, again, it does not work, same problem. I do the process all over again, same thing. Anyone have any ideas?

Edit:

Oh yeah, here's the actuall error I get when trying to login.

There was an error settuping up inter-process communications for KDE.
The message returned by the system was:

Could not read Network Connection List.
//: .DCOPserver_192.168.0.1__0

Please check that DCOPserver program is running.

Maybe that can help you out.

[unknown]

Just to finish off this thread... I had a similar problem and the proposed solution here did work. I am running Mandrake 10.1 Official (download) with kernel 2.6.8.12-mdk, running on a PIII-600MHz. I was forced to forcibly reboot my machine, and when it loaded back into KDE I got this message:


There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE.
The message returned by the system was:

Could not read Network Connection List.
/home/bob/.DCOPserver_localhost__0

Please check that "dcopserver" program is running.


This was fixed by removing the .ICE* and .DCO* files and rebooting:

$ whoami
bob
$ cd /home/bob
$ rm .ICEauthority*
$ rm .DCOPServer*
$ su
# reboot

The deleted files are re-created by KDE upon rebooting and everything runs fine thereafter.