Well, i tried (exept for X11) all suggestions: no dice, nothing works, situation still the same! So: i removed things (to bak dirs). No more KDE, no more /opt/kd... whatever, no more home/user/Desktop or .kde or .kde3, nothing was left. No more DCOP sockets, nothing. No more /tmp files, nothing. I removed all KDE packages with GNORPM ! Then i checked with yast2, all was gone. Then i rebooted, and installed KDE3 from scratch. All went well. Then i tried to start kde3 ...... and ...... DCOP problem as before! They should roast the responsable programmers, and then hang them, and have their ...... well you get the picture. I think they secretly work for Redmond, otherwise i cannot understand someone is capable of such a mess! Unbelievable. Well, an other evening gone up in smoke. Thanks guy's. I'm probably going to be really nasty now, so i stop this e-mail (don't know if there's an age-limit on this NG). Steven le dim 26-05-2002 à 10:51, Teratam Bunyagul a écrit : I understand your frustrations. I had the same problem before. Deleting temporary files did not help me at all. I couldn't find the answer that suited me either. So this is how I solved: 1. Downgrade your XFree86 to the one that comes with SuSE CDs. (Don't forget to uninstall every packgage relating with XFree first. Use YaST1 to do this) 2. OR upgrade your XFree86 to 4.2.0 the latest build. It came out about Mar 2002 (I guess, couldn't remember). If you are using 4.2.0 now, make sure it is the same one that you can find in SuSE ftp site today!!!. Check if RPM packages are the same name!!!. I hope you enjoy using KDE3 as I do. Teratam Bunyagul On Saturday 25 May 2002 23:04, Steven Lobbezoo wrote: > And.... Yes, as so many others, > dcopserver is refusing to let me start kde3 > Before (7.3 with kde 2) all was fine. > > I tried everything i saw in the archives of this newsgroup. > Nothing helps. > > So, i have to work with Gnome (works like a charm) > or Windowmaker (also ok) or so.. > > Now, i dont know if any developres of KDE are reading into > this newsgroup (they should ;-)), but i think it's obvious that > the system with the dcopserver stinks! > > There's no real doc, nobody understands really what to do, > no help - nothing. > > A bit difficult in that situation to stay with an otherwise > great piece of software. Well, i'l wait an other week or so > to see if someone has an idea (i don't anymore), and if not > i'll switch over. > > Steven