It sounds like your user account did not get setup properly.
I am doing my school work right now, so I am in windows. I do not know off
the top of my head how to check user information. The user may be listed,
but the password for that user may not be setup correctly. I don't know
because I have never had the same problem as you.
----- Original Message -----
From: Bernard Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 7:07 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Linux Mandrake 7.2 beta 2
> I downloaded the iso files for what appears to be the beta2 distribution
> from the site in France. Installation went smoothly, although I found
> the printer installation was slightly confusing. I selected the CUPs
> option for my Epson Stylus Color 800 second time around and it worked.
>
> It looks good but I have a couple of observations (I didn't get as far
> as testing out individual packages.
>
> 1) I can get pictures of different allowed users for selection prior to
> selection of the graphic interface (kde & gnome etc) and for user log
> in. However I can only get the system to accept "root"
> If i try to log on as another user (at the GUI) I get a message which
> says:
>
> " some error setting up inter-process communications for KDF. The
> message returned by the system was : networksList argument is null.
> please check that the "dcopserver" program is running"
>
> I tried to run the system from the text input ie without the graphics
> and the same thing occurs.
> The problem is also the same if Gnome is selected instead of KDE with
> the graphics interface.
>
> 2) I use a cable modem to access the internet. On setting up the system
> for networking an error occurred if I tried to select "cable modem" and
> eth0 as my network interfaces. I could get round the error by selecting
> to configure the internal network for both of my network cards. On
> looking at the network configuration in Drakconf/ Network it looks OK,
> but there is no communication with the internet.
> ( This is disappointing as I have never had a problem with setting up to
> communicate with the internet using any other version of Linux).
>
> Bernard
>
