Re: drm message while X starts up

[dpates@dsdk12.net (Derrik Pates)]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 08:54:35PM -0500, Nirmal Govind wrote:
> I don't use a display manager.. I login at the prompt and then use startx.. when I start KDE, it shows me the splash screen and hangs at the "initializing system services" stage... when I look at the .xsession-errors this is what it has:
> 
> DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
> DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
> DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
> DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
> DCOPServer up and running.
> 
> The funny thing is that when I start kde as root, everything works fine.. so some permission somewhere is not right I guess.. please let me know if you have any suggestions...

Is your /tmp directory set with the right permissions? It should be
owned by root, mode 1777 (a+rwxt). If not, fix it, and try again.

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