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c8a7w
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 Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: [Solved] KDE freazing on startkde |
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hey guys i really need your help
ive been messing about with this for about a week and i get get kde3.5 back to a working status.
i installed kde4.0 (which i have since uninstalled but nevermind that) and lost the kdm entry for 3.5. since then i cant startkde (either from kdm after restoring the entry or from failsafe with /usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde
from executing startkde i recieve
| Code: | DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS='unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-5NkO1kmps0,guid=68f2e99a067d9855c307578947cd8b3c';
export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS;
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_PID=5867;
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_WINDOWID=8388609;
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i cant see anything useful in /var/log and i have to restart X or nothing happens.
i have reemerged kde3.5.8 and 3.5.9 both with and without dbus to no joy. (and of course reemerged dbus and world)
really run out of ideas at this point and i uni is starting to get busy again so i dont have the time to keep messing about with it so help is very great fully received. any ideas on whats causing it? anything else i should post to help?
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My_World
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| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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If you installed KDE4 then it uses its kdm.
Try this:
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nano -w /etc/conf.d/xdm
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm-3.5"
/etc/init.d/xdm restart
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c8a7w
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:20 am Post subject: |
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its not a kdm problem, i can select kde3.5 from the session menu but it just shows the back ground and does nothing.
if i go into failsafe (from the kdm session menu) and execute either startkde or ./usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde then it echos the messages above then does nothing else |
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step
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| My_World wrote: | If you installed KDE4 then it uses its kdm.
Try this:
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nano -w /etc/conf.d/xdm
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm-3.5"
/etc/init.d/xdm restart
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strange, I have it this way: (no idea why, but all works so why bother)
in /etc/conf.d/xdm I have DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm"
and in my /etc/rc.conf
XSESSION="kde-4.0" <- you need "kde-3.5"
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
Try 'eix kdm' to see what versions you have installed. |
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c8a7w
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| step wrote: | | My_World wrote: | If you installed KDE4 then it uses its kdm.
Try this:
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nano -w /etc/conf.d/xdm
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm-3.5"
/etc/init.d/xdm restart
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strange, I have it this way: (no idea why, but all works so why bother)
in /etc/conf.d/xdm I have DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm"
and in my /etc/rc.conf
XSESSION="kde-4.0" <- you need "kde-3.5"
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
Try 'eix kdm' to see what versions you have installed. |
yea but its not KDM its KDE
i can select kde3.5 from KDM but it wont load.
if i login to failsafe and execute /usr/kde/3.5/bin/startkde it displays the 4 lines and nothing else! |
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step
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | yea but its not KDM its KDE
i can select kde3.5 from KDM but it wont load. |
Ok, sorry 
Can you add a new user and try to log in as the new user?
It sounds like some files got frell'd in your .kde dir. |
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c8a7w
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 7:26 pm Post subject: |
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i created a test user and had the same problem.
and now for some reason xfce will only start from failsafe, ugh. |
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c8a7w
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject: |
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ive fixed it.
i unmerged Kde completely (as it says on the guide) and deleted /usr/kde/ and remerged kde-base and dbus from scratch and its worked
strange since id already done that  but its working now  |
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