[plug] dcopserver?

[Sol]

Thanks Russell and Craig,

You guys were spot on. I had dirs in /tmp that weren't owned by the 
user. But that wasn't the problem. I was being too clever by half 
because I destroyed the /home/dhammaloka directory and then cp -Rv 
another user directory to /home/dhammaloka. Obviously this was the 
source of uid difficulties. I destroyed /home/dhammaloka again and did 
mkdir dhammaloka ; chown dhammaloka.users dhammaloka and then tried to 
log in. Voila!

I think I've learnt a valuable lesson about uids and ownership in the 
process. Thanks again.

cheers; sol


Russell Steicke wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 03:18:56PM +0800, Sol wrote:
>  
>
>>I'm having a hard time with a minor problem. Recently I used rsync to 
>>mirror things like /etc/passwd to a few client PCs. All was ticket-e-boo 
>>except for on one client, one user account refuses to login - the one 
>>account that existed prior to adding all the entries in passwd and 
>>shadow - it just returns an error message and restarts kdm.
>>
>>This is the error:
>>
>>'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/dhammaloka/.DCOPserver_ws4__0
>>
>>Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running.'
>>
>>I've checked configs and restarted daemons, I've even completely wiped 
>>out the /home/dhammaloka directory and replaced it from scratch and 
>>nothing seems to help. Yet there must be a simple fix for this!
>>
>>Any ideas?
>>    
>>
>
>Check that the UID of dhammaloka is the same as it was before.  Change
>everything in ~dhammaloka to the new UID if not.  If you've done that
>and it's ok, look in /tmp for things owned by the name dhammaloka but
>with the old UID.  Those you can probably safely delete.  Some of these
>types of programs create temporary files and unix domain sockets in
>places like that.
>
>
>
>
>  
>


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