dcop dies between every session

[Clay Weber]

On Monday, March 07, 2011 08:20:56 AM O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 07/03/2011 14:25, Clay Weber wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> I have come to understand that it has been "replaced" but do not quite
> get why, once started, kded and klauncher is attached to it.
> 
> I was looking for a way to logout of KDE from command line as the logout
> function has gone wacko on my new laptop... in short it does not work.
> Shutdown and reboot works (almost always) logout does not. And found a
> command via google that use dcop to log out - incorrect or not I don't know

Try this:
$ qdbus org.kde.ksmserver /KSMServer org.kde.KSMServerInterface.logout 0 0 
0 

the final 3 numbers edit some options, such as restart, erc but I don't have 
much info on that at hand

clay