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Hi,
I've got Archlinux on a slightly older PC that I'm maintaining less then my new PC. Also, this PC is standing in a home where there is a monthly bandwidth limit, so I can't do a lot of "pacman -Syu".
I upgraded things separatly now after months of no upgrades at all.
I updated qt, gtk2, kdebase without problems, it could reboot and everything.
Then I upgraded xorg, and now after rebooting and wanting to start kde (with startx, which eventually calls startkde), it says: startkde command not found.
So startkde disappeared somewhere.
How can I make it work again?
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try running as root:
/opt/kde/bin/kdm
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What will doing this do? Will it create a new startkde file/command/....?
Where should startkde normally be and how did it get removed?
Also sort of related: I also upgraded bash with pacman. It now says that the shutdown command isn't found anymore. How could that one have been removed?
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I had the same problem and solved the problem by updating my path variable. In order to do this add the following line to your .bashrc
export PATH=$PATH:/opt/kde/bin
Last edited by kendosperling (2008-02-04 11:13:03)
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I am guessing that the kde.sh in /etc/profile.d/ lost the exec flag (somehow). To see if this is the problem you can use ls -l /etc/profile.d/ If this is the problem it is easy to fix by doing a chmod 755 on the file and finally do a relogin.
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You are right, that solved the problem also. Thanks
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I am guessing that the kde.sh in /etc/profile.d/ lost the exec flag (somehow). To see if this is the problem you can use ls -l /etc/profile.d/ If this is the problem it is easy to fix by doing a chmod 755 on the file and finally do a relogin.
It isnt necessary to set it executable, and not a good idea when having a parallell install of KDE3/KDE4...
More info here (read the comments): http://kdemod.ath.cx/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=88
want a modular and tweaked KDE for arch? try kdemod
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It isnt necessary to set it executable, and not a good idea when having a parallell install of KDE3/KDE4...
More info here (read the comments): http://kdemod.ath.cx/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=88
I didn't know that it was actually intended, guess I have to source those files from my .bashrc file (I am only using kdemod(3)). Anyway, thanks for the information!
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