kde fails to start...

skinpainting · 02-14-2004, 09:47 PM

kde enviroment won't start up...when i boot the computer and try to use that dm or whatever it says something about not being able to start kde.init and then more about not loading dcopserver and to check if it's on... any idea's if needed i can post the actual error and all

colnago · 02-14-2004, 10:18 PM

It sounds to me like you have /home on a different partition and it is not being mounted, but that is just a guess. Can you see your user area when you get dumped to the command line?

If you can get into your /home/user area, try moving the .kde directory. If that does not work, check the permissions on the home folder too, make sure it is writeable by your user id. Moving the .kde dir will screw up all your customisations, but you can always move it back if you locate the problem.

RabidPenguin · 02-18-2004, 01:30 AM

Try 'chmod 755 /usr/X11R6/bin'

Redeye2 · 02-18-2004, 01:51 PM

Could be your video driver... if you're using the nvidia one, try changing the "nvidia" back to "nv" in the XF86Config-4 file.