DCOP Problem with 2 KDE3.0 users

[Dave Anderson]

I have KDE 3.0 running on Solaris 8.

I have spent considerable time trying to debug this problem:

I have set up a user which I use to test kde3; kdetest is the username. 
I also have users set up to run CDE & KDE2. Everything was fine up to 
this point; I could choose any of these users and get the appropriate 
window system to come up as the default.

Now, I added some users for my girlfriend to use(she doesn't have time 
to learn the ins & outs, so I'm trying to make it easy for her) I added 
robin(default WM=CDE), robink2(default WM=KDE2) and robink3(default 
WM=KDE3). This way she can test her web development in Netscape/CDE, 
Konquerer 1.98/KDE2, and Konquerer3/KDE3 without having to know a lot 
about how to switch things around. So far so good....

Here is the problem:

When I log in as kdetest, I get in fine(though I would love to strangle 
kpersonalizer... I'm sick of it and don't know how to make it go away 
for good.). When I log out then log in as robink3, I get dcop not 
running errors, then kpersonalizer, then more dcop errors, then I get 
kicked back to dtlogin.

I have checked, and when this happens the $HOME/.DCOP* files are not 
getting created. (the dcop errors indicate that these files can't be opened)

If I reboot, then log in as robink3, KDE starts fine; if I then log out 
and log in as kdetest, the same thing as above happens. I took this to 
be proof that it is not user-specific. Anyway, I copied .profile and 
.dtprofile to robink3 from kdetest.

Other symptoms/things I've tried:

Permissions on $HOME in either case make no difference; I tried 755, 
775, 777 on both directories and get the same results.

Interestingly, if I reboot, do "ps -ef > file1" from a telnet window, 
log in via dtlogin as one user, then log out and do "ps -ef > file2" 
from the telnet window, I see three additional processes running: 
rquotad, rpc.ttdbserverd, and rpc.rstatd. I tried killing these prior to 
logging in as the second user, but I get the same results.

Also, if I am kicked back to the dtlogin window after getting the dcop 
errors, and I attempt to do a command-line login, the "login" prompt 
appears as follows(no quotes): "^[[250z"  I try to log in, and it fails. 
Then I get the expected "login:" prompt, and it works. Strange, eh?

I have considered moving to a newer version of KDE but there is such a 
huge amount of effort involved(recompiling from source, since there are 
no Solaris binaries available) that I want to wait until KDE3.1 is 
released(not the Alpha).

If anyone can point me in the right direction to troubleshoot this 
problem I would really appreciate it...

Thanks & Regards,

Dave Anderson


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