KDE not starting and getting access errors

[Jason Shein]

On February 24, 2005 07:26 pm, jim ruxton wrote:
> Thanks Jason,
> Either way I get the same messages unfortunately.
> jim
>
> > On February 24, 2005 08:27 am, jim ruxton wrote:
> > > And when I try to start KDE I get this below. Gnome runs fine. Any
> > > ideas what I did. I also noticed around the same time my hard drive was
> > > at 99% capacity. I've since cleaned it up. This is where Linux gets
> > > fun. Unfortunately my Google searches haven't helped.
> > >
> > > kdeinit: Pipe closed unexpectedly: No such file or directory
> > > kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.
> > > Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
> > > kdeinit: Pipe closed unexpectedly: No such file or directory
> > > kdeinit: DCOPServer could not be started, aborting.
> > > Could not register with DCOPServer. Aborting.
> > > startkde: Shutting down...
> > > Warning: connect() failed: : Connection refused
> > > Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
> > > startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
> > > startkde: Done.
> > > waiting for X server to shut down
> >
> > Have you tried logging on as root? This will let you know if it is your
> > user configuration files or kde in general that is having problems.
>

Have you looked into /var/log/ for any relevant information ? On my system I 
would look into

/var/log/messages
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
/var/log/kdm.log

to start with.

Linux normally reports what ails it extremely well.

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