hello! > Every now and again, for no discernable reason, the machine will refuse to > run any more applications, and instead choose to display a dialog box > saying "<appname> could not contact DCOP" - from that point, the user must > log off, and log in again, at which point all is rosy. i've got the same behaviour which you describe on one of the boxes here. the machine runs 24h/7days a week and the problem occurs - hmm, let's say about all 2-3 weeks. i didn't have the time to investigate further but i found a simple work- around for it. the cause of the error-message (at least in my case) is, that the temporary directories of the user lose their access-rights (strange). in my case, the following directories in /tmp get accessrights of 600 instead of 700 and can't get accessed anymore: /tmp/ drwx------ 2 gurke gurke 4096 Apr 21 01:50 kde-gurke drwx------ 2 gurke gurke 4096 Apr 21 01:51 ksocket-gurke so, basically i just set up a cronjob which resets the permissions every now and then. but if i'm not the only one with that problem, we should maybe file a bug about? or do some of the kde-people in here know, where the problems are coming from? hope this helps, Pascal -- Pascal Mainini ----- open-minded computer artist encrypted mail preferred --- http://www.impressionet.ch/crypto/ more? -> www.impressionet.ch - artist? -> www.guerk.li
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