kde4 could not start d-bus
 

I installed kde4 on slackware 12.0, via some .tgz packages i found on the internet.

But when i run startx, i first see the splash screen very short and then i get the error running qdbus doesn't work, but running /opt/qt4/bin/qdbus works. It gave an error about dbus-uuidgen, but after running it gave the error
I have absolutely no idea what this means.

Does /opt/qt4/bin in your $PATH ?
If not, then you can add into your KDE 4.0's startkde command something like this :

export QTDIR=/opt/qt4
export QT_PLUGINS_DIR=$KDEDIR/lib/kde4/plugins:$QT_PLUGINS_DIR
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$QTDIR/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH

i have tried it, but that doesn't fix the problem.

Here is some extra information.
This is the output of the startkde command:
There is a change that the output shown above isn't 100% exactly the same as the ouput it gave. Because i have to write on a paper and post it with the-os-we-dont-want-to-mention.

I hope you can do something with it....

does anybody know it?

trungnt_hut had it right.

Just make sure you set your QTDIR variable to the correct location for your installation.

Mine was located in /usr/lib/qt4.

export QTDIR=/usr/lib/qt4
export PATH=$QTDIR/bin:$PATH

The above 2 lines were enough to get me into KDE 4.0.2 successfully.

Thanks trungnt_hut!

i've tried it again, now it works! Maybe i made an error.

Does kde4 run smooth on your system? By me it is very choppy. Is this a problem with drivers from ati, or somethin configuration in X? Or is it just a bug in kde?

I'm happy that I can help !
Thanks !

{sorry to revive this thread...}

Where did you find those tgz's might I ask?

i can't find them on the site where i downloaded them. But you can search for something like 'kde 4 slackware'.

I think you 'd better use 3.5 right now, because kde 4 missen lots of features (kmail etc). And the packages i used were 4.01.

Somewhere in June kde 4.1 will be released and probably a new slackware, but i can't say it for sure.

OK...thanks!