Error setting up IPC - KDE will not start [solved]

[suomynona]

Hi,

 

I just installed 2005LE, but there were some errors right after I logged in and stuff was loading.

 

There were three error messages:

 

First message:

 

(this is the first message i could read. there was another message, but it kept getting covered by other messages)

 

There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE.  The message returned by the system was

 

Could not read network connection list.

/home/michael/.DCOPserver_localhost__0

 

Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!

 

I clicked ok to close this message, and another message popped up:

 

Will not save configuration.

 

Configuration file "/home/michael/.kde/share/config/ksplashrc" not writable.

 

Configuration file "/home/michael/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals" not writable.

 

Please contact your system administrator.

 

after clicking OK to this message, I saw a loading splash screen with Tux, stalled at 'Setting up interprocess communication'

 

Nothing was happening, so I clicked the mouse, and the splash screen disappeared and I could see the first message box:

 

The following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE:

 

No write access to $HOME directory (/home/michael).

 

KDE is unable to start.

 

I clicked OK and was sent back to the login screen.

 

I told it to restart the computer, but instead it just exited to a console screen prompting me with 'localhost login:'

 

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Details about how I installed:

 

I made a 6GB "/" ex3 or ext3 or something3 partition, a 512MB swap partition, and the rest of the space (another ~6GB) i mounted as "/home" and formatted as FAT32 so that I can see it from windows and throw some MP3s/OGGs on it (eventually I'll convert some of my NTFS partitons to FAT32).

 

Could FAT32 be the problem?

 

 

Looking at the FAT32 partition in windows, I see only the following:

 

[michael]

|-----[tmp]

|-----.screenrc

 

 

[] indicates directory.

 

2 directories and one file. nothing else.

 

any ideas about what's gone wrong?

 

thanks,

Michael

Edited May 21, 2005 by suomynona

[Ixthusdan]

fat cannot be a linux partition. It will work fine for storage, but not as /home. Use ext3 for that as well.

[suomynona]

thanks : )