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KDE 3.5.3 hangs on trying to start the desktop.

Leon Goldman

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Monday, July 10th 2006, 5:34pm

KDE 3.5.3 hangs on trying to start the desktop.

I recently installed 3.5.3 as an upgrade on Mandriva 2006.1. When I rebooted the kdm logon appeared, I could log on, and the KDE splash screen opened, but when it got to the section where the desktop was loading it just hung up and finally froze. If I go into my system via Gnome, I can open KDE programs such as the games or Kate, but I cannot open an KDE desktop.

I am stuck as to how to troubleshoot this. I do not know enough to be able to read through kdmrc to see if there is a problem there, nor do I understand the process to know where to look next. The system otherwise seems to run fine.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
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Leon

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Monday, July 17th 2006, 10:20am

possiobly similar to the problem myself and a few others have had on suse 10.1 (see this thread). the solution for us was to

1) upgrade qt3 before anything else when there was a seperate package available away from the main kde package repository, though it's worked fine for me doing it with everything else.

2) use smart package manager to upgrade stuff instead of the suse default. don't think it's available for mandriva though you could possibly try an alternate package manager.

3) most importantly, upgrade from a command shell and init 3. on suse we just hit ctrl-F1 to leave kde and bring up a command shell, not sure how you do it in mandriva but i'd deffinately try it.

fwiw some guy had the same problem in suse where he could get to gnome but not kde, i think he just changed to a command shell, removed and then reinstalled kde from there and it worked.

Leon Goldman

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Monday, July 17th 2006, 9:26pm

Thanks pepsi max2k. I did end up doing the same thing. Removed kde packages, then reinstalled from Gnome using the Mandriva installer and using mandriva packages.
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Leon