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hairymunky

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Wednesday, September 15th 2004, 10:27pm

KDE won't start...

Hi all,

I've downloaded KDE 3.3, using Konstruct, changing the script to install KDE to
/usr/share/kde3.3
then as root, I did a make install, and all went well .... until I tried to start KDE....

I changed the login manager to KDM, and tried to log in as a user, but I got an error
message "KDE seems to be already running", then all I get is a Xterm, nothing
else....
Ive also tried to do a 'startkde' from the shell, but get the same error.....

I've also added the exports to the .bash_profile in my home dir pointing to the correct
directories...

Anyone help...????

thanks
munky

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Thursday, September 16th 2004, 6:31am

Try removing /tmp/kde-$USER

you could also try and regenerate the kdm scripts by running (as root) genkdmconf --no-old
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Thursday, September 16th 2004, 12:32pm

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Original von seb

Try removing /tmp/kde-$USER

you could also try and regenerate the kdm scripts by running (as root) genkdmconf --no-old


Tried that, but still get an error..

The error should actually read "KDE seems to be already running on this display", when I'm actually running Gnome with GDM as the login manager
(KDM works until you log in, then I get the "KDE already running on this display"...

:cry:

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Thursday, September 16th 2004, 12:50pm

Do me a favour.

Boot up, let kdm/gdm load, and go into a virtual terminal. To do this, press Ctrl-Alt-F1

Login, and post the output of ps -ax, and so we can see if kde is actually running.
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Thursday, September 16th 2004, 8:04pm

ps -ax gives

[code:1]
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:04 init
2 ? SW 0:00 [keventd]
3 ? SW 0:00 [kapmd]
4 ? SWN 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
9 ? SW 0:00 [bdflush]
5 ? SW 0:00 [kswapd]
6 ? SW 0:00 [kscand/DMA]
7 ? SW 0:00 [kscand/Normal]
8 ? SW 0:00 [kscand/HighMem]
10 ? SW 0:00 [kupdated]
11 ? SW 0:00 [mdrecoveryd]
15 ? SW 0:00 [kjournald]
72 ? SW 0:00 [khubd]
1179 ? SW 0:00 [kjournald]
1440 ? SW 0:00 [eth0]
1489 ? S 0:00 /sbin/dhclient -1 -q -lf /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-eth0.
1532 ? S 0:00 syslogd -m 0
1536 ? S 0:00 klogd -x
1554 ? S 0:00 [portmap]
1573 ? S 0:00 [rpc.statd]
1639 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apmd -p 10 -w 5 -W -P /etc/sysconfig/apm-sc
1676 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd
1690 ? S 0:00 xinetd -stayalive -reuse -pidfile /var/run/xinetd.pid
1707 ? SL 0:00 [ntpd]
1777 ? S 0:00 [master]
1784 ? S 0:00 [pickup]
1785 ? S 0:00 [nqmgr]
1788 ? S 0:00 gpm -t imps2 -m /dev/mouse
1797 ? S 0:00 crond
1808 ? S 0:00 cupsd
1868 ? S 0:01 [xfs]
1886 ? S 0:00 [atd]
1894 ? S 0:00 login -- root
1895 tty2 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty2
1896 tty3 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty3
1897 tty4 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty4
1898 tty5 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty5
1899 tty6 S 0:00 /sbin/mingetty tty6
1900 ? S 0:00 [gdm-binary]
1943 ? S 0:01 [gdm-binary]
2005 ? S 0:01 /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 11
2057 ? S 0:00 oafd --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=10
2125 ? S 0:01 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 -auth /var/gdm/:0.Xauth vt7
2133 ? S 0:03 /usr/bin/gdmgreeter
2134 tty1 S 0:00 -bash
2180 tty1 R 0:00 ps -ax
[/code:1]