On Thursday 04 December 2003 9:11 pm, Darrell Cormier wrote:
I have a very serious (in my mind) and odd problem. I was trying to run snip<
This only happens on one user out of 5 that are on this machine. I have tried deleting the .kde* and .DCOP* files/directories in this users home directory but still no luck. I have also renamed the .xinitrc file to bak.xinitrc but this had no affect either (not that I necessarily thought it would). Has this happened to anyone, and how do you fix it?
Gnome also seems to be affected because this particular user cannot log into Gnome either. XFCE4 and FVWM work fine.
All other users can log into any of the above mentioned desktop environments without issue.
Any hints?
Thanks, Darrell
As root, go to the /tmp directory and delete all the directories and files associated with that userid. That may help. My clue is the "... interprocess communications" error you see. The .DCOP* directories are sym links to the same ones in /tmp anyway. There are others in /tmp that you would not have deleted. That is where the system stores the temporary lock files for most applications and desktop environment managers and this seems to be your issue with this userid. I don't believe that XFce4 and fvwm use these temporary lock files. Stan