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Cagnulein

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From: Modena, Italy

Registered: 2006-04-03

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KDE on VNC

I'm trying to run kde from VNC.

All runs fine, but when i start vncviewer i see a white window says

startkde: Starting up...
startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Check your installation.

Logs:

sh-3.2# cat /home/cagnulein/.vnc/Cagnulein\:1.log 
09/02/09 13:19:37 Xvnc version TightVNC-1.3.9
09/02/09 13:19:37 Copyright (C) 2000-2007 TightVNC Group
09/02/09 13:19:37 Copyright (C) 1999 AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
09/02/09 13:19:37 All Rights Reserved.
09/02/09 13:19:37 See http://www.tightvnc.com/ for information on TightVNC
09/02/09 13:19:37 Desktop name 'X' (Cagnulein:1)
09/02/09 13:19:37 Protocol versions supported: 3.3, 3.7, 3.8, 3.7t, 3.8t
09/02/09 13:19:37 Listening for VNC connections on TCP port 5901
09/02/09 13:19:37 Listening for HTTP connections on TCP port 5801
09/02/09 13:19:37   URL http://Cagnulein:5801
xrdb: No such file or directory
xrdb: can't open file '/home/cagnulein/.Xresources'
xset:  bad font path element (#37), possible causes are:
    Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
    Directory missing fonts.dir
    Incorrect font server address or syntax
startkde: Starting up...
startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Check your installation.

09/02/09 13:19:48 Got connection from client 192.168.0.1
09/02/09 13:19:48 Using protocol version 3.8
09/02/09 13:19:48 Enabling TightVNC protocol extensions
09/02/09 13:19:49 Full-control authentication passed by 192.168.0.1
09/02/09 13:19:49 Pixel format for client 192.168.0.1:
09/02/09 13:19:49   32 bpp, depth 24, little endian
09/02/09 13:19:49   true colour: max r 255 g 255 b 255, shift r 16 g 8 b 0
09/02/09 13:19:49   no translation needed
09/02/09 13:19:49 Using raw encoding for client 192.168.0.1
09/02/09 13:19:49 Using compression level 1 for client 192.168.0.1
09/02/09 13:19:49 Using image quality level 6 for client 192.168.0.1
09/02/09 13:19:49 Enabling X-style cursor updates for client 192.168.0.1
09/02/09 13:19:49 Enabling cursor position updates for client 192.168.0.1
09/02/09 13:19:49 Enabling LastRect protocol extension for client 192.168.0.1
09/02/09 13:19:53 Client 192.168.0.1 gone
09/02/09 13:19:53 Statistics:
09/02/09 13:19:53   key events received 1, pointer events 57
09/02/09 13:19:53   framebuffer updates 4, rectangles 20, bytes 3354734
09/02/09 13:19:53     cursor shape updates 1, bytes 82
09/02/09 13:19:53     cursor position updates 1, bytes 12
09/02/09 13:19:53     raw rectangles 18, bytes 3354640
09/02/09 13:19:53   raw bytes equivalent 3354640, compression ratio 1.000000

sh-3.2# cat /home/cagnulein/.vnc/xstartup   
#!/bin/sh

xrdb $HOME/.Xresources
xsetroot -solid grey
#xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP Desktop" &
#exec startfluxbox &
exec startkde &
#unset SESSION_MANAGER
#gnome-session &

Kde works fine if i start it from KDM

Thanks for any ideas

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