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12-24-2005, 11:20 AM
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Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Birmingham/Eng/UK
Distribution: /Debian3.1/suse/Win7/8/10
Posts: 680
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could not start Ksmserver (kde dont boot)
hello i recently booted my machine and got this error machine "could not start Ksmserver" i got this error whilst trying to load kde in debian 3.1
can anybody help me overcome this message please
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12-24-2005, 12:26 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Olympia, WA, USA
Distribution: Fedora, (K)Ubuntu
Posts: 4,187
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Did you look at the log files? They oftem contain more information.
Can you start a simple X session? I.e.: what happens when you do startx?
Have you tried any other display managers (xdm, gdm, etc.)?
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12-24-2005, 05:45 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: Birmingham/Eng/UK
Distribution: /Debian3.1/suse/Win7/8/10
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i can use gnome with out any problems iv tried uninstalling kde completely then reinstalling it but i get the same error message
thanks nige
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12-24-2005, 07:40 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2004
Location: Olympia, WA, USA
Distribution: Fedora, (K)Ubuntu
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O.K., ksmserver is started under kwrapper so error messages are lost.
Try starting it by hand: # ksmserver kdm, for example (if you use the kdm, use gdm for the GNOME dm)
You may see some suggestive error messages.
Do a cat /usr/bin/startkde to see where ksmserver is called, and how.
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