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Re: problems starting KDE



On Tuesday 23 August 2005 13:10, User Debian wrote:
> > The problem, as far as I can see is the DCOP communication problem.
> >
> > Check /etc/hosts, specifically, and ensure you have not messed with the
> > line
> >
> > 127.0.0.1  localhost
> >
> > and that your system hostname (uname -n) is resolvable by your chosen
> > domain name resolution system (DNS/files/NIS, whichever you are using).
>
> Hi  David
>
> Following your advice, I have checked /etc/hosts -- only one line
> 127.0.0.1  localhost
> is there, which is logical: I use hdclient, so all this stuff is
> generated automatically
> after each boot up.
>
> Also uname -u gives the same as in /etc/hostname
> host <hostname> resolves the name without any problem (so, DNS works well)
>
> So, I am quite desperate :(
>
> Thanks anyway,
>
> Roman

Oh, and if you've got any firewall, particularly on the loopback interface, 
drop it.

Check also that ping 127.0.0.1 replies ok, sometimes people had problems with 
lo coming up.

David

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