dcop dies between every session

Clay Weber claydoh at claydoh.com
Mon Mar 7 12:25:41 UTC 2011


On Monday, March 07, 2011 06:20:13 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
> Running Kubuntu 10.10 with all updates to KDE 4.6.1
> 
> Since some time (I dont know when, discovered this by a fluke) dcop
> server is not starting automatically. After startup I go to a console
> line and type
> dcop
> and get:
> DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
> DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
> ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
> 
> I then run
> /usr/bin/kdeinit
> and get:
> kbuildsycoca running...
> DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
> 
> If I after that run
> dcop
> I get:
> kded
> klauncher
> 
> anyone recognise this and have an idea what is wrong and what I could do?
> 
> Kind regards
> Sinclair

dcop has been replaced with dbus in KDE 4. it still will exist on kde4 systems 
that have any kde3 apps running as it is included in the kdelibs4c2a pacakge. 
It could be that it is not fully complete, something else is missing perhaps. 

What exactly do you need dcop to do? 

clay




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