To Mr Terry & Mrs Kath Martin (in Tasmania) and the Ubuntu Linux Yahoo Group. Hello Ubuntu people :-))) I'm forwarding (below) a message I sent to the Australian Ubuntu e-mail list and friends of mine, Terry & Kath. Maybe someone else is having this problem (I have seen some messages on the Linux Mint forum about people having the same problem -- however I could not make any sense of the reply messages!!! ;-) If someone knows how I could fix this problem; would you please be kind enough to provide step-by-step instructions... as, although I do know a lot about computers, I still regard myself as a Ubuntu Mint beginner -- and I am a little concerned about stuffing up my computer and not making it work properly... which has happening to me in the past. Fond Regards and I Wish EveryOne and All a Sincerely Happy and prosperous New Year for 2009 !!! *BIG SMILE* With Love, PEW { poet, creative computer user, self-publisher and Christian !!! } ***SMILE*** { I believe that the 'proverbial glass' is half-full, not half-empty!!! } from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. <div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Peter Williams <<a href="mailto:pewtas@gmail.com">pewtas@gmail.com</a>> Date: 2009/1/4 Subject: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about "DCOP communications" To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Hi Everyone, Firstly, I'll like to wish everybody here a sincerely Happy New Year for 2009 and all "Yuletide Seasons Greetings" *BIG HAPPY SMILE!!!* Okay.. here's my problem. I'm using Linux Mint Operating System & I think that its great!!! I also use Amarok music player and I have a lot of music files which I've 'ripped' from my music cds which I own. I returned home yesterday afternoon (3rd January 2009) from having a great holiday with my mum & dad in Victor Harbour, South Australia. My dad has a new computer system and he uses M$ Windowz XP Professional OS. He's having quite a few problems with it -- but I've tried to help him. *SMILE* Anyway... last night I switched on my computer and started Amarok (latest version, I think). And I had my computer play music thru' my Dell brand 2 x speakers and "harmon/kardon" sub-woofer (which I have from my old Dell computer I purchased many years ago). I was succesfully able to play music thru my speakers and subwoofer... while I was in bed sleeping. It was very pleasant!!! :-))) However, Amarok had some message about not being about to do something because "dcopserver" was not there!?!?!? Question: What Do I need to do on my computer to make Amarok work again? This morning (Sunday, 4th Jan 2009) I rebooted my pc a few times... then I rebooted into the recovery mode. And fixed some things. It seemed to improve some things. I then used the menu on the screen "System / Administration / Synaptic Package Manager" and I think I found the correct files to install the "dcopserver" and also some files for Amarok's "libvisual" thing! I then let Synaptic Package Manager do it's thing... And it downloaded and installed something! (I don't really understand what!) Anyway I've switched off my pc and rebooted it etc. Now when I try to start Amarok it does not start and I get a window with the following error message: Amarok Error Message -------------------------------- DCOP communications error (Amarok) There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was: Could not open network socket Please check that the "dcopsever" program is running! [OK] button nb - I will happily provide extra 'system specs' or details if requested... but I'll admit that I don't really understand what type of computer it is. I know that it is quite new and I really like my pc... but I don't really understand what processor speed or whatever it has!!! :-) It's rate myself as still a beginner at learning and using Linux Ubuntu Mint OS -- even thro' I've been using Linux Mint since sometime last year. also... I don't like using the 'terminal' console command ... because it's new and I don't really understand how it works. *SMILE* I'll use the terminal command line when I need to... but I don't really like it :-) Yours PEW -- a little bit baffled as to why my favourite music player, Amarok, is not working!!!  *SMILE* from North Hobart, Tasmania. -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com" target="_blank">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a>  (or) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs" target="_blank">http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs</a> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.) </div> -- Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675 My free website is: <a href="http://pewtas.googlepages.com">http://pewtas.googlepages.com</a>  (or) <a href="http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs">http://tinyurl.com/yuyejs</a> (please visit my free website and let me know what you think about it.)