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Sunday, January 13th 2008, 4:00am

Can't login into KDE: DCOPserver problem for *all* users.

Hi All

Im at the end of my troubleshooting and I need some help.

I am running a fresh install of Fedora 8 and recently I cannot log into KDE at all.
After trying to log in, I get the following error message:

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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/<user>/.DCOPserver_<myservername>__0

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!


Now, this is a very google-able error, but of all the reading Ive done, I still cannot seem to fix the problem.

The difference between my problem and others Ive read is that it happens
to me for *all* users, including root. So far I have tried the following troubleshooting steps:
[list]- checked that /tmp/.ICE-unix has 777 permissions and is owned by root.
- Ive tried manipulate files within /tmp (chaning permissions, ownership etc) as well as totally renaming /tmp.
I sometimes get different error messages, but nothing so far has actually fixed it.
- Ive tried unistalling and re-installing kde (using "yum remove" and "yum install"). Same problem.
- Ive added new, test users and Im still getting the same error with these users.
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I cant for the life of me think of what I did to cause this in the first place.
Does anyone have any more suggestions?

TIA
Matt