here's my problem. I'm using Linux Mint Operating System & I think
that its great!!! I also use Amarok music player and I have a lot of music
files which I've 'ripped' from my music cds which I own. I returned home
yesterday afternoon (3rd January 2009) from having a great holiday with my
mum & dad in Victor Harbour, South Australia.

My dad has a new computer system and he uses M$ Windowz XP Professional OS.
He's having quite a few problems with it -- but I've tried to help him.


Anyway... last night I switched on my computer and started Amarok (latest
version, I think). And I had my computer play music thru' my Dell brand 2 x
speakers and "harmon/kardon" sub-woofer (which I have from my old Dell
computer I purchased many years ago).

I was succesfully able to play music thru my speakers and subwoofer... while
I was in bed sleeping. It was very pleasant!!! :-)))

However, Amarok had some message about not being about to do something
because "dcopserver" was not there!?!?!?

Question: What Do I need to do on my computer to make Amarok work again?

This morning (Sunday, 4th Jan 2009) I rebooted my pc a few times... then I
rebooted into the recovery mode. And fixed some things. It seemed to improve
some things.

I then used the menu on the screen "System / Administration / Synaptic
Package Manager" and I think I found the correct files to install the
"dcopserver" and also some files for Amarok's "libvisual" thing! I then let
Synaptic Package Manager do it's thing... And it downloaded and installed
something! (I don't really understand what!)

Anyway I've switched off my pc and rebooted it etc.

Now when I try to start Amarok it does not start and I get a window with the
following error message:

Amarok Error Message
--------------------------------

DCOP communications error (Amarok)

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

Could not open network socket

Please check that the "dcopsever" program is running!

[OK] button

nb - I will happily provide extra 'system specs' or details if requested...
but I'll admit that I don't really understand what type of computer it is. I
know that it is quite new and I really like my pc... but I don't really
understand what processor speed or whatever it has!!! :-)

It's rate myself as still a beginner at learning and using Linux Ubuntu Mint
OS -- even thro' I've been using Linux Mint since sometime last year.

also... I don't like using the 'terminal' console command ... because it's
new and I don't really understand how it works. *SMILE* I'll use the
terminal command line when I need to... but I don't really like it :-)

*Yours PEW -- a little bit baffled as to why my favourite music player,
Amarok, is not working!!! *SMILE*