Re: KDE startup hangs and 'commits suicide'

[Fabian Dortu <Fabian.Dortu@wanadoo.be>]

On Sat, 2002-03-16 at 21:36, Steffen Evers wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> After updateing a woody machine my KDE does not work any longer.
> 
> It hangs on the second phase (system services) during init and dies
> finally with the following error message in the .xsession_errors file:
> 
> kdeinit: Shutting down running client.
> ---------------------------------
> It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure
> that it is not already running, remove /root/.DCOPserver_ocean_:0
> and start dcopserver again.
> ---------------------------------
> 
> @^@^@
> [...]
> ^@^@^@kio
> (KLauncher): ERROR: KLauncher: KDEInit communication error! Commiting
> suicide!
> 
> 
> Any hints?
> 
> Bye, Steffen
> 
> 

I have exactly the same problem but I think it can be due to a more
general problem because some other window managers(like sawfish) fail
also to load.

Fabian