Hi all,

Well, I could have mandy 9.1 and I have upgraded to it, BUT
I could not use it yet.
I am having a problem that stops me.
I can't start my KDE. Each time I try to load linux, and try the GUI through KDE, I get a plinking cursor and busy watch, the screens which should appear to salute you or something work very mad, and they never appear clearly, it is as if someone is pressing the enter key forever, and I could not even logout, it is very busy that cursor !!!
Well, what should I do?

hhegab

It seems to me that some component is failing and then being reinstated, over and over again.

You could try a few tests to try to isolate exactly which component is failing. I suggest that you start a bash shell, make sure that you are at run level 5, and then try each of the following commands to see what works and what doesn't:

kdm
startx
startkde

Hi,
I have tried the followinf command, startkde, and I got the following error message

Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Bamboo) for i586
Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk on an i686 / tty1
(then I logged in)

$startkde
Xmodemap: unable to open display ''
Xmodemap: unable to open display '' (second time)
Xset: unable to 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
startkde: shutting down (No bosy asked him to do this )
Warning: connect () failed: : no such file or directory
Error: can't kde init!
startkde : running shutdown script...
startkde: Done.

So, the proble is obviously in KDE and espacially in the init file I guess.
I have installed it again, asking this time not to use the graphical login, and then I asked for Gnome as a desktop manager. I don't like Gnome (No hard feelings, OK!)
I thought that KDE init is in somewhere else other than the place it should reside in, but I don't know where should it be placed.

Please tell me what should I do?

Hatim

I would say that the results of your startkde test show that kdeinit is working
correctly under the circumstances. By issueing startkde you bypassed kdm and X
Window. You went directly into KDE. kdeinit could not start one of the X
Window service routines that it needs. It tried twice and then quit. It did
not go into an infinite error/restart loop.

Try the same thing with startx. When you issue the startx command you are
starting one of two scripts:
/root/.xsession
/home/usr/.xsession
Check the results you get against what the script is trying to do.

Try the same thing with kdm. kdm is the graphical login program.

I use both Gnome and KDE. I have kdm set up to choose bash, Gnome, or KDE each
time I log in. gdm is the Gnome graphical login manager. If you have Gnome
installed start gdm and use gdm to try to start KDE. (I don't know if this is
really possible since I have never tried it.) This will be a test of whether X
Window and KDE work if you bypass kdm.