[SOLVED] hp tx1020ea slackware 13 can't start x-server
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iv been working on this for a while now and im just not getting anywhere.... i type in startx and it comes up with the splash screen and shows the hdd icon but then it dumps me strait back into shell... the error it prints is...
Code:
kded(11105): Communication problem with "kded" , it probably crashed.
Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not
receive a
reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a
reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply
timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kcminit_startup
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/ksmserver
ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libGL.so.1: cannot open
shared
object file: No such file or directory
startkde: Shutting down...
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
kded(11106): "Error launching kconf_update. Either KLauncher is not
running anymore, or it failed to start the application."
startkde: Done.
waiting for X server to shut down kded4: Fatal IO error: client killed
error setting MTRR (base = 0xd0000000, size = 0x04000000, type = 1)
Invalid argument (22)
i have run xorgsetup but this did not help... am i doing something silly???
any help would be great!!! thx
Last edited by creatureofthedark; 02-22-2010 at 07:40 PM.
Reason: added more info to the error message
Then I wonder if you got a bad download of Slackware. If I were in your shoes, I'd check the md5sum of your iso against what it is supposed to be (provided you downloaded Slackware). KDE should work out of the box without the need for installing anything else. The only other thing I can think is that if you installed Nvidia or ATI drivers, that might have screwed up the OpenGL libraries. Also have a look in your Xorg logs in /var/log and see if there are some additional error messages there.
Well, there aren't any errors in your X log, so that means X is starting up OK. That suggests the problem is in one of the KDE packages. The fact that you don't get the correct MD5sum isn't good. If you're not getting the download from either Slackware or LQ, where are you getting it? Also, you're downloading 13 and not Slackware-current, right?
i was downloading from mirror-uk but i went for the ftp strait from slackware and that work out well... just reinstalling now... il let u know how it gose :P and yer its slackware 13 :P
Cool. I'm glad it was the download, because if it wasnt', I had no idea where to take this one. Wifi will (hopefully) be pretty straight forward. The touchscreen, I'm not so sure about. For that one in particular, if you have a problem, post in the Slackware forum. There are some frighteningly good people that hang out there.
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