Login Problem

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.

Is this dcopserver something that you use?

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

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

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

now can you login command line?

Yes

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 :?

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

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Originally Posted by 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.

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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.