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djseomun

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From: Durham, NC

Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 35

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[SOLVED] KDE4 hangs at splash screen

SYMPTOM

I installed KDE4 a week ago via Pacman. There are no problems booting. I get to KDM, choose KDE4 as my session, and login. The splash screen starts and shows the hard drive icon, the screwdriver & wrench icon, the world icon, and then stops.

If I type CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to restart the X server, I can get back to KDM. If I choose Openbox as my session, I can start Openbox without any problems.

The same thing - hard drive icon, screwdriver & wrench, world, hang - happens if I select KDE4 (failsafe).

Has this happened to anyone else?

SOLUTION

grave's post pointed me in the right direction. (Thank you!) In the terminal, I typed

sudo chmod a+rw .ICEauthority

in my home directory. I rebooted and KDE4 loaded perfectly.

Last edited by djseomun (2008-11-11 22:17:56)

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: [SOLVED] KDE4 hangs at splash screen

The first time you start a new KDE4 system it takes quite a while for it to build all of it's configuration folders.  Are you sure you waited long enough for the build process to complete?

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djseomun

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From: Durham, NC

Registered: 2008-10-19

Posts: 35

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE4 hangs at splash screen

Thanks for the quick response. I forgot to mention that I installed KDE4 a week ago and until this morning, I had no problems. I will edit my original post to include this information.

grave

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2007-04-06

Posts: 22

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE4 hangs at splash screen

I did have the same problem it has something to do with (englisch i think the read/write properties)
from this file    .ICEauthority

deej

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Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 395

Re: [SOLVED] KDE4 hangs at splash screen

I've had this problem, sparodically. All I do now is issue the 'chown <user_name> /home/<user_name>/.ICEauthority'
and all is good again.

Wonder what causes it ?

Deej

dopewalker1

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Registered: 2007-10-24

Posts: 11

Re: [SOLVED] KDE4 hangs at splash screen

I was also having this problem... kept having to kill X and change the permissions (chmod a+rwx) but I keep having the same problem everytime I boot up. Is there a permenant fix?