Hi,

I just set up a fresh install of Woody from the
official CDs. Whenever I try to start a KDE session,
X crashes during the init phase. It gets to about the
second blink of the peripherals icon, then dies with
no visible error message and kicks me back to kdm. I
tried starting it with gdm, and the same thing
happened.
I can start GNOME or twm sessions fine, so I know my X
setup is at least mostly right.

regards
samkupar

what's in ~/.xsession-errors ?

the required file contains

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
SESSION_MANAGER=local/sambox:/tmp/.ICE-unix/644

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
/dev/dsp: Permission denied

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_signal_disconnect_by_data(): could not find handler containing data (0x8182BB8)

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library

Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation


Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1


Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation


Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1


Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation


Gdk-WARNING **: ISO8859-1

_KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root
DCOPServer up and running.
trying to create local folder: File exists
trying to create local folder: File exists
trying to create local folder: File exists

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846001 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846001 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846001 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846001 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846001 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846001 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846014 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846014 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846014 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846014 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846014 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846014 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39845897 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39845897 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39845897 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39845897 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39845897 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39845897 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846337 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846337 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846337 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846337 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846337 to 46

GStC-WARNING **: gstc_parent_add_child(): can't add known window 39846337 to 46
kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children.
KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1
kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit: Exit.
Gnome-Message: gnome_execute_async_with_env_fds: returning -1
WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes) 8
Major opcode: 42