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Socialbeast
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 Posted: Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:42 pm Post subject: Probably a simple solution but.. |
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Hey guys, I'm new to linux and the forums here. I got an eee pc laptop running on xandros a while ago... saw on a website that you could change the host name, so I tried it out. And now I feel stupid. I started up my eee at school today only to get | Quote: | There was an error setting up the inter-process communications for KDE. The message returned by the system was:
Could not read network connection list.
/home/user/.DCOPserver_The Commander__0
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Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!" |
Anyways, I read somewhere that the problem could be that there is a space in my hostname, and apparently you can't have that? I don't know. Thing is... I can't access my desktop, so how could I access a terminal to change the hostname? Am I a lost cause, should I throw out this tiny plastic box?
Someone help please, with simple details/words, like I said, I'm still new to Linux.
Thanks so much! |
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Cloudy Wizzard
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 4:19 am Post subject: |
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Yes, there are a few things to avoid when naming files/directories and the space is one of them (Linux cannot handle them well).
what you can do is :
1. Hit Control + Alt + F1 (this should give you a DOS-like interface, if you even remember what DOS was  ).
2. enter the login name : root (ENTER) and then the root's password (I guess you knew this since you were already able to change the hostname).
3. I'm not sure what editor is included but I guess it's VI or VIM
4. try "vi /etc/hostname"
IF you have the VI or VIM editor installed you should be able to edit the hostname file.
But be sure to Google on howto use the vi editor since it's a very old terminal editor so it's not that easy to use for a newbie !
I found this but I don't know if it's that newbie friendly :
http://www.vmunix.com/~gabor/vi.html
Oh, and if you ARE gonna throw away the tiny plastic box then please do it in MY direction (but seriously, the worst case scenario would be to re-install the OS on that thing).
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Socialbeast
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| Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2009 8:22 am Post subject: |
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I fixed it another way, but before when I tried pressing Cntl-Alt-F1 or even any of the F keys while it was starting up, nothing happened. It never gave me anything to write in or whatever.
Anyways, I saw a post somewhere that you can repeatedly press F9 during startup to reset the system back to factory defaults or something. So I did that.. worked, but I have to reinstall some things. It was easy to do and I didn't have too many important things on the laptop itself (kept most things on SD card).
Thanks for the reply anyways, appreciate it! |
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Cloudy Wizzard
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n/p
Did you wait for the system to "fully" boot before you tried the Control+alt+F1 (all 3 at the same time ) ??
IMHO it should work (at least on most distro's that I know).
I did once have a problem with this not working but that was caused by a Grub-bootsplash (usplash IIRC) that I tried in Debian.
Offcourse maybe the functionalities of the EEEPC version of the OS are limited ?).
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