KDE4 fails to start in fresh -current install
Hi all -
OK, so I tried KDE4.x on my -current box when it was still tucked in /testing. It didn't work for me then, I thought maybe I had b0rked something up upgrading from 3.5, and decided I'd wait until it made its way into the main tree. I recently did a Bad Thing and wound up having to reinstall Slack from scratch. So of course I now had KDE4 again ... and when I try to start it I see essentially the same behavior I saw before: I get the lovely splash screen, then when the thing is finished loading in, the screen changes to a quite hideous and striated display where everything is squished over to the left side of the screen. I can move the mouse pointer around for about 5-10 seconds and then the whole thing freezes solid. Based on another post I saw here (I can't seem to dig it up again), I took a look at /var/log/messages and lo! there is a slew of this in there: Code:
Mar 20 19:18:01 catbutt dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.7" (uid=1000 pid=20534 comm="kded4 ") interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable" member="Introspect" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=2746 comm="/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes ")) Perhaps this laptop (Dell Inspiron 4100, PIII 100MHz) is just too old to run KDE4? 3.5 ran fine on it. Thanks, Glenn |
I am having the same issue on a newer machine that is very capable, so I don't know if it is related to that. There is another thread about it that people have given some tips, but I haven't gotten it to work yet.
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This is not exactly a deal-breaker since I can still run KDE4 apps from, say, XFCE (which is nicer to my old machine), but I'd still be interested to know why KDE4 isn't working for me. |
Quite interesting, I have never got error messages like that since I applied RWorkman's hal.conf and add myself to some groups.
Oh, have you add yourselves to some groups? here is mine: $ groups users daemon audio video cdrom messagebus haldaemon plugdev power |
I just tried the new hal.conf and adding myself to those groups and rebooted and I still get the same dbus error messages and can't login to kde.
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OK. Grissiom, I added myself to the same groups as you. I no longer get as many dbus messages when attempting to start KDE4. In fact I only get two, but they are followed by a segfault, which (I am guessing) is why my machine totally freezes:
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Mar 21 14:36:34 catbutt dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.12" (uid=1000 pid=3496 comm="kded4 ") interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq" member="SetCPUFreqGovernor" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=2814 comm="/usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes ")) Code:
<unknown program name>(3062)/: KUniqueApplication: Cannot find the D-Bus session server http://burningc.freeshell.org/images/KDE4screen.jpeg So, yeah, I wish I knew how to troubleshoot this. I guess I will try Googling "error 4 in Xorg" next. Thx, GB |
Hmm , so we have two problem here.... At first I have to admit that I am not a guru and my way of solving problems is "try-and-fault"....
So go ahead. What video card and driver are you using? Can you run glxgears in other DE successfully? I'm using ATI X1150 with open source driver and the support is poor... If I do a lot of OpenGL the X could freeze too.... If this is your case, open ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc when KDE is _not_ running, find the following section in it: Code:
[Compositing] |
OMG. Fortunately I burnt -current the day before yesterday on a DVD. So I can continue installing Slackware with KDE-3.5. :-D
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Odd, my ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc doesn't look like that at all ... it looks like this:
[$Version] update_info=kwin_focus2.upd:kwin_focus2,kwin.upd:kde3.0r1,kwin.upd:kde3.2Xinerama,kwin_focus1.upd:kw in_focus1,kwin3_plugin.upd:kde3.2,kwin_on_off.upd:kwin_on_off [Desktops] Name_1= Name_2= Name_3= Name_4= Number=4 ... and that's all. |
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because if you do not do that kde will never work. it will try to load the old 3.5.10 and you guessed it error |
Hi Drakeo,
There are a couple of these threads about ... think you might be quoting from one of them (?) I should have been more explicit in the first post of this one: when I reinstalled, I did so from scratch and installed -current straight in. There was no upgrading from 3.5.10 -> 4.x.x, so (unless I'm missing something else, which is always eminently possible) I should have had no old .kde stuff laying around at all. I'm keenly interested why I am getting the dbus errors I posted above, & why my kwinrc file doesn't have any of the stuff Grissiom referenced in it ... |
seems I started another topic about the same problem:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...24-mar-715312/ the mods can close that one down I do get into KDE and I can use it without problems (I haven't found them... yet) I'm using it on an old pc so I don't have the compositing enabled. |
in a terminal as root type pkgtool and run install scripts again let me know.
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Hmm. This is confusing. I guess mah thread done got hijacked. ;^) Or redirected. If anyone has any tips for your humble OP, I'd appreciate 'em.
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OK, OK, pelt me with rocks and garbage. I fixed this and it was ridiculously easy. I was looking in the wrong place(s) and missing the obvious one(s).
It was a mis-done xorg.conf file. I reconfigured X and KDE4.2.1 now works happily. Bad day. But this at least ended happily. Thanks all for your patience. GB |
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