Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (305 mails)

[Eric Carbone <ERIC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Am Dienstag, 4. März 2003 00:05 schrieb Eric Carbone:
> > No sarcasm intended ...
> 
> Sorry... <arrrgh> tried... but... <rrrrgh> couldn't resist... *bg*
> 
> > if I cd to /root and type ls -l I see this:
> >
> > .DCOPserver_myserver -> /root/.DCOPserver_myserver_:0
> >
> > If I try to edit the file I get:
> > Bash: ./.DCOPserver_myserver: No such file or directory
> > Press any key to continue
> 
> Well if /root/.DCOPserver_myserver is a symlink to
> /root/.DCOPserver_myserver_:0 and /root/.DCOPserver_myserver_:0 does not
> exist, then you have found the problem.
> 
> Delete the broken symlink, I think the missing file and the broken (and
> now
> deleted) symlink should be created again when restarting X.
> 
> Daniel

Being a linux novice, I was afraid to start arbitrarily deleting files ;-)

I will try deleting this sym link and hope that linux 'fixes itself' when I
reboot.

Thanks for your help.
I'll cross my fingers and ask my client to try logging in again.