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breaksand30

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Registered: 2011-01-13

Posts: 39

KDE crashes as soon as it starts

I recently installed KDE4 and decided to test it out. I also have gnome installed on my system. When I type startx KDE starts up but then when it gets to the second loading thing it crashes and brings me back to the terminal. This is my ~/.xinitrc file

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
#
# exec ion
# exec jwm
# exec wmaker
exec startkde
# exec icewm
# exec pekwm
# exec blackbox
# exec gnome-session
# exec startfluxbox
# exec startxfce4
# exec xfce4-session
# exec openbox
# exec startlxde

MadTux

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Registered: 2009-09-20

Posts: 553

Re: KDE crashes as soon as it starts

Did you already try to use exec ck-launch-session startkde instead of just exec startkde?

Did you look into /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

breaksand30

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Registered: 2011-01-13

Posts: 39

Re: KDE crashes as soon as it starts

Did you already try to use exec ck-launch-session startkde instead of just exec startkde?

Did you look into /var/log/Xorg.0.log?

I've looked in Xorg.0.log and I don't see anything that can help me. Theres just some stuff that pops up right after KDE crashes.

kikinovak

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From: Montpezat (South France)

Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 96

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Re: KDE crashes as soon as it starts

Had the same problem here. Solved it by disabling GLX. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-quirks.conf like this:

Section "Module"
        Disable "glx"
EndSection

Restart X and give it another shot.

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breaksand30

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Registered: 2011-01-13

Posts: 39

Re: KDE crashes as soon as it starts

Had the same problem here. Solved it by disabling GLX. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-quirks.conf like this:

Section "Module"
        Disable "glx"
EndSection

Restart X and give it another shot.

Thanks that worked. KDE is pretty sick