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smsware

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From: Szczecin, Poland

Registered: 2012-08-14

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[SOLVED] KDE won't start

I've just installed Arch... again. I decided to go for KDE this time. I installed kde-meta-kdebase, have graphics drivers (xf86-video-intel) and everything. When I've try to run it by startx ("exec startkde" in my .xinitrc, copied from /etc/skel - everything done like always), the process ends after short blink of the screen. No error output now but before reboot it prompted "startkde: no such file or directory" - now no error message but it won't run anyway... there is /usr/lib/kde on my system but when I go

# systemctl enable kdm.service

- again: no such file or directory... it's like it's not installed the right way but pacman sees it. It was the same yesterday and I thought I just forgot about something so today I went step-by-step with Beginner's Guide... and still nothing. Only thing that is different from the usual system is zsh. Test xorg DE starts fine.

Last edited by smsware (2014-03-13 02:08:48)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE won't start

$ pkgfile startkde
extra/kdebase-workspace
$ pkgfile kdm.service
extra/kdebase-workspace

Do you have kdebase-workspace installed?

smsware

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From: Szczecin, Poland

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE won't start

I had kde-meta-kdebase installed but now I see that

sms-linux% sudo pacman -S kdebase
[sudo] password for root: 
:: There are 11 members in group kdebase:
:: Repository extra
   1) kde-wallpapers  2) kdebase-dolphin  3) kdebase-kdepasswd
   4) kdebase-kdialog  5) kdebase-keditbookmarks  6) kdebase-kfind
   7) kdebase-konq-plugins  8) kdebase-konqueror  9) kdebase-konsole
   10) kdebase-kwrite  11) kdebase-plasma

Enter a selection (default=all): 

it's not there by default. Is it a mistake by packager that it wasn't pulled by any of the packages and it's not listed there too? "Minimal install" section of Arch Wiki article about KDE is now invalid and it wasn't like that before... I just went here to type that "I don't know why but after installing some other kde packages, the problem dissapeared" - now I know why, thanks! :-)

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE won't start

it's not there by default. Is it a mistake by packager that it wasn't pulled by any of the packages and it's not listed there too?

Maybe, but it's just a guess, I know nothing about KDE, I've never used it.

$ pacman -Si kdebase-workspace | grep Groups
Groups         : kde

I don't think it ever was a part of kdebase: https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit … cf83a524b9

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE won't start

Bug report was filed earlier today: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/39369