At 12:35 PM 1/3/05, you wrote:

At 12:37 AM 1/3/05, you wrote:

Am 02. Jan, 2005 schwätzte Fred Wright so:

> Suse 9, KDE, User Session
>
> My system hung solid (no intervention session possible) running k3b
> requiring a system reset to get back in (I know, bad thing to do). After
> restart, the user session was not restartable because .DCOPserver_linux__0
> gets "permission denied" during X startup/login. You can login Mode 3 but

Look for KDE related directories under /tmp and /var/tmp.

$ ls -l /tmp/kde-lufthanspE7xzr/*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 lufthans lufthans 40 2004-12-27 23:12
/tmp/kde-lufthanspE7xzr/ksycoca ->
/var/tmp/kdecache-lufthansrqSqZt/ksycoca

Login to a terminal console while not logged in via X and remove those
dirs.

<ctrl>-<alt>-<f1> to get to a console from X. <alt>-<f7> to get back to X.

ciao,

der.hans

> you cannot even "ls" the user's Home directory as user without getting the
> "permission denied" message. Root can issue the "ls" and see the
> .DCOP....... file by name but cannot "rm" it or copy over it with last
> week's backup copy. I can see the permissions in the backup copy of the
> file to see what they should be in the "active" version.
>
> Any suggestions of how to change the "active" file permissions or overwrite
> with the backup copy?

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I can remove/rename the entries in /tmp and /var/tmp but to no avail.

Error setting up interprocess communications for KDE
Could not read network connection list
/home/fredw/.DCOPserver_linux__0
Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running

Using Knoppix, I get permission failures when I attempt "ls -a" or "ls -l" in my home directory.
I will try to get a copy of the "startx" startup log entries as they seem to have more detailed information about the failure.

stdout from the startx
===============================================
XFree86 Version 4.3.0.1
Release Date: 9 May 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE
Build Date: 12 February 2004
        Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
         (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
         (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Mon Jan 3 19:16:08 2005
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/local, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/kwintv, removing from list!
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID, removing from list!
xset: bad font path element (#96), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
xset: bad font path element (#96), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
Link points to "/tmp/ksocket-fredw"
Can not create file /home/fredw/.DCOPserver_linux__0: Permission denied
DCOPServer self-test failed.
kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.
Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
Can not create file /home/fredw/.DCOPserver_linux__0: Permission denied
DCOPServer self-test failed.
kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.
Could not register with DCOPServer. Aborting.
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

waiting for X server to shut down
===============================================
stdout from ls of /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
===============================================
total 104
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        79800 2004-01-23 22:02 75dpi
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          248 2004-01-23 22:02 CID <====
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         1416 2004-01-23 22:02 encodings
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          205 2004-12-26 11:14 fonts.cache-1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          216 2004-01-23 22:02 kwintv      <====
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          216 2004-01-23 22:02 local       <====
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root        17792 2004-01-23 22:02 misc
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          504 2004-01-23 22:02 Speedo
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          984 2004-01-23 22:02 truetype
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         2056 2004-01-23 22:02 Type1
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          448 2004-01-23 22:02 uni
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           28 2004-01-23 21:50 URW -> /usr/share/ghostscript/fonts
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root          600 2004-01-23 22:03 util
===============================================

Jerry-
I am not seeing the file and soft link you described. An "ls -al" against my HOME directory consistently fails and the inode is not available for the same reason the listing entry fails.

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