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Luc484
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 Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject: [Solved] KDE is not starting anymore |
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Hi. Today I rebooted the system, and after the boot, kdm didn't start, and was replaced by another login manager, maybe xdm. Anyway, the login didn't work. I opened a shell and I shut down xdm. After the boot I tried with startx, but kde is not loaded correctly. The only errors I can see are:
| Code: | Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the x server
Could not init font path element /usr/share/fonts/local/, removing from list!
/home/luca/.xinitrc: line 1: exec: startkde: not found
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FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/share/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing |
Any idea of what could have happened?
Thanks and hi.
EDIT: In Xorg.0.log I found this:
| Code: | | (EE) Failed to load module "vnc" (module does not exist, 0) |
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sonicbhoc
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| your kde install is borked somewhere. Try emerge gentoolkit and running revdep-rebuild and see if anything comes up. If not, remerge kdelibs and kdm and kdebase-startkde. |
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Luc484
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 3:55 pm Post subject: |
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I've tried to run revdep-rebuild, and it was rebuilding something, but it stops when trying to re-emerge openoffice 2.0.3, so I cannot go on with the other packages. Now I'm trying to re-emerge kdelibs, Ive already tried with the others you suggested.
Thank you for your help. |
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ghutzl
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject: |
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Your error in xorg.log:
| Code: | | (EE) Failed to load module "vnc" (module does not exist, 0) |
is caused by the fact that the vnc module is installed in a directory that is not by default in the module path. Depending on which vnc you installed (tighvnc/realvnc) you may have different paths to set. I have installed realvnc (net-misc/vnc) and added the following module path to my /etc/X11/xorg.conf:
# The module search path. The default path is shown here.
ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
ModulePath "/usr/lib/modules/extensions"
ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/modules/extensions"
To find out which ModulePath to set just search for libvnc.so in your root partition or check where your vnc installation puts the file with the following command:
or for tightvnc:
| Code: | | equery files tightvnc |
But now let's talk about my problem:
I think I have something similar to you. After upgrading my whole system to profile 2006.1 and recompiling all packages I found out that kdm is no longer started. Even no other display manager is getting started like in your case. The script /etc/init.d/xdm fails telling me it cannot find kdm which is true because /usr/kde/3.5/bin is no longer in the search path. The script does a "which kdm" which is failing. I am wondering what may have caused this. Does anyone understand how the init script are getting the environment variables like $PATH? Which config file do I have to edit to add /usr/kde/3.5/bin ?
I am currently remerging kdelibs and kdm and kdebase-startkde as suggested above. I will let you know the results.... |
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ghutzl
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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I have found the root cause of my problem. I compared my /etc/env.d directory with that of another working gentoo install and found that the file "45kdepaths-3.5" was missing from my system. It contains:
| Code: | PATH=/usr/kde/3.5/bin
ROOTPATH=/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin
LDPATH=/usr/kde/3.5/lib
CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown"
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So you see it is setting the correct paths. To check which package installs this file I used:
| Code: | | equery belongs 45kdepaths-3.5 |
So arts is the one. I re-emerged arts and everything was working again. I could not figure out why this file actually vanished from my working system, though.
The big question here is: Why is this file installed by arts? It is a critical file for kde. If we don't have this file kde is not working as designed. We cannot run kdm by /etc/init.d/xdm. Anyone having some insight? Is there a bug in the kde packages? |
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Luc484
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| Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:51 pm Post subject: |
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I tried re-emerging kdebase-startkde, kdm, arts, kdelibs, xorg-server and reached the end of revdep-rebuild. The result is that I still cannot run kde. I tried running /usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde and I get:
| Code: | Xsetroot: unable to open display ' '
Xset: Unable to open display " "
Xset: Unable to open display " "
Xset: Unable to open display " "
Xset: Unable to open display " "
Xsetroot: Unable to open display "
Startkde: Starting up...
Ksplash: Cannot connect to X server
Kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set
Warning: Connect() failed: No such file or directory
ksmserver: Cannot connect to X server
ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: No such file or directory
Error: can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: running shutdown scripts...
startkde: done |
Any other idea guys? I found many threads with these errors, but no one applied my case.
Thanks.
EDIT: Ok, thanks, I solved. The problem was hat /usr/kde/3.5/bin/ was not in the path. Addind it to the path made everthing work. Thanks and sorry. |
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