Hello!
I have quite a strange problem with dcop. We are using kde 3.2 in a NIS/NFS
environment, and it runs quite smooth. But recently I started to write a
system script which tries to open a dcop connection to a user currently
logged in (as that user). Since this seems to be quite a common task I found
a lot of scripts doing this as well.
They ll used a mechanism like
dcop --user $user --list-sessions |grep DCOP |head -1
to get hold of the current session.
When I try this on my machine I get the following warning:
[albiez] $dcop --user albiez --list-sessions
WARNING: Cannot determine home directory for user albiez!
Please check permissions or set the $DCOPSERVER variable manually before
calling dcop.
No active sessions
At first I was a bit astonished (where is the problem in finding my
home-dir), but after some fiddling around I found out that when I do
[albiez] $dcop --all-users --list-sessions
I get:
WARNING: Cannot determine home directory for user +@nis-group1!
Please check permissions or set the $DCOPSERVER variable manually before
calling dcop.
WARNING: Cannot determine home directory for user +@nis-group2!
Please check permissions or set the $DCOPSERVER variable manually before
calling dcop.
WARNING: Cannot determine home directory for user +@nis-group3!
Please check permissions or set the $DCOPSERVER variable manually before
calling dcop.
This looks like as if the dcop programm doesn't use the classical
libc-mechanism to parse and evaluate passwd! Otherwise the nis things would
have been transparent. Since I don't have the time to start reading the
sources of dcop, I would like to know if somebody else has the same problem.
This might not be an exclusive debian problem but since I am using
debian i386/testing I ask here first.
blue skies
Jan
BTW:
[albiez] $dpkg -l kde\* | grep ii
ii kde 3.1.2 The K Desktop Environment
ii kde-amusements 3.1.2 The K Desktop Environment (Games and Toys)
ii kde-core 3.1.2 The K Desktop Environment (Core)
ii kde-i18n-de 3.2.3-2 German (de) internationalized (i18n) files
f
ii kde-i18n-engb 3.2.3-2 British English (en_GB) internationalized
(i
ii kde-theme-matt 0.2.0.1-3 Matte family of themes for KDE
ii kde-theme-meta 0.2.0.1-3 Metallic family of themes for KDE
ii kde-theme-neon 0.2.0.1-3 Neon family of themes for KDE
ii kde-theme-past 0.2.0.1-3 Pastel family of themes for KDE
ii kde-theme-swee 0.2.0.1-3 Sweetpill family of themes for KDE
ii kdeaddons 3.2.3-2 add-on plugins and applets provided with
KDE
ii kdeaddons-kfil 3.2.3-2 KDE file dialog plugins for text files and
f
ii kdeadmin 3.2.2-1 KDE Administration tools metapackage
ii kdeadmin-kfile 3.2.2-1 KDE File dialog plugins for deb and rpm
file
ii kdeartwork 3.2.3-2 themes, styles and more from the official
KD
ii kdeartwork-mis 3.2.3-2 various multimedia goodies released with
KDE
ii kdeartwork-sty 3.2.3-2 widget styles released with KDE
ii kdeartwork-the 3.2.3-2 Dummy upgrade package for official KDE
deskt
ii kdeartwork-the 3.2.3-2 icon themes released with KDE
ii kdeartwork-the 3.2.3-2 window decoration themes released with KDE
ii kdebase 3.2.2-1 KDE Base metapackage
ii kdebase-bin 3.2.2-1 KDE Base (binaries)
ii kdebase-data 3.2.2-1 KDE Base (shared data)
ii kdebase-dev 3.2.2-1 KDE Base (development files)
ii kdebase-doc 3.2.2-1 KDE Base Library Documentation
ii kdebase-kio-pl 3.2.2-1 KDE I/O Slaves
ii kdeedu 3.1.5-2 educational apps from the official KDE
relea
ii kdeedu-data 3.1.5-2 shared data for KDE educational
applications
ii kdegames 3.2.3-1 KDE Games metapackage
ii kdegames-card- 3.2.3-1 Card decks for KDE games
ii kdegraphics 3.2.2-1 KDE Graphics metapackage
ii kdegraphics-kf 3.2.2-1 provide meta information for graphic files
ii kdelibs 3.2.3-2 KDE core libraries metapackage
ii kdelibs-bin 3.2.3-2 KDE core binaries
ii kdelibs-data 3.2.3-2 KDE core shared data
ii kdelibs3-doc 2.2.2-13.woody KDE core library documentation
ii kdelibs4 3.2.3-2 KDE core libraries
ii kdelibs4-dev 3.2.3-2 KDE core libraries (development files)
ii kdelirc 3.2.2-2 KDE infrared control
ii kdemultimedia 3.2.2-1 KDE Multimedia metapackage
ii kdemultimedia- 3.2.2-1 KDE Multimedia (development files)
ii kdemultimedia- 3.2.2-1 au/avi/m3u/mp3/ogg/wav plugins for kfile
ii kdemultimedia- 3.2.2-1 Support for browsing audio CDs under
Konquer
ii kdenetwork 3.2.2-1 KDE Network metapackage
ii kdepasswd 3.2.2-2 KDE password changer
ii kdepim 3.2.2-2 KDE Personal Information Management
metapack
ii kdepim-dev 3.2.2-2 KDE Personal Information Management
[develop
ii kdepim-kfile-p 3.2.2-2 KDE File dialog plugins for vcf files
ii kdepim-kio-plu 3.2.2-2 KDE pim I/O Slaves
ii kdeprint 3.2.2-1 KDE Print
ii kdesdk 3.2.3-2 KDE Software Development Kit
ii kdesdk-doc 2.2.2-7 docs for the KDE Software Development Kit
ii kdesdk-kfile-p 3.2.3-2 KDE file dialog plugins for source and
patch
ii kdesdk-misc 3.2.3-2 various goodies from the KDE Software
Develo
ii kdesdk-scripts 3.2.3-2 a set of useful development scripts for
KDE
ii kdesktop 3.2.2-1 KDE Desktop
ii kdessh 3.2.2-2 KDE ssh frontend
ii kdetoys 3.2.3-3 toys from the official KDE release
ii kdetoys-doc-ht 3.2.3-3 KDE toys documentation in HTML format
ii kdeutils 3.2.2-2 KDE Utilities metapackage
ii kdevelop 2.1.5.1-7 An IDE for Unix/X11
ii kdevelop-data 2.1.5.1-7 Platform independent data files for the
kdev
ii kdevelop-doc 2.1.5.1-7 Documentation for the kdevelop package
ii kdewallpapers 3.2.3-2 wallpapers released with KDE
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-- Jan Christian Albiez -- IDS Interactive Diagnosis- and Servicesystems --
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