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#1 2010-01-19 15:58:15

svejaka
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Fresh install kde not starting

I have very strange problem when trying to start kde.This is a fresh install with full kde package (pacman -S kde).I`ve also installed xorg and ati drivers.KDM is starting but when i write my username and password i get KDEs default wallpaper and strange console at the right bottom.
Any clues where should i look.

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#2 2010-01-19 20:36:14

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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

do you have

exec startkde

in your xinitrc?


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#3 2010-01-19 22:30:19

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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

I've had permissions issues before which gave symptoms like this when I forgot to give my user a home directory, or if the user was not the owner of their home directory.

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#4 2010-01-20 01:14:23

svejaka
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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

Then i think that problem is coused by the fact that i`ve had fedora core installed with separate /home/svejaka partition (ext4) with all my info(docus,movies,music) there.Now i`ve installed archlinux on fedora cores place and i want to use my old home partition.

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#5 2010-01-20 02:01:31

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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

Check the number of the /home partition. Add the same in fstab file. For example.

/dev/sda6 /home ext4 defaults 0 1

This auto mount your /home partition automatically

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#6 2010-01-20 10:12:28

svejaka
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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

My /etc/fstab is fine but do i have to do something to point ot that i am this ""svejaka" user?

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#7 2010-01-20 10:30:21

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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

Are you using KDM as login manager? If so, check if the session is KDE.


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#8 2010-01-20 11:11:56

theta
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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

Bralkein wrote:

I've had permissions issues before which gave symptoms like this when I forgot to give my user a home directory, or if the user was not the owner of their home directory.

It could be a problem regarding permissions. Check the owner and group of the /home/username directory using

ls -l /home

If the owner & group are not the ones that they should be, use chown & chgrp commands to change them.

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#9 2010-01-20 14:46:48

svejaka
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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

Ok...so i`ve created new user [hui] and now i`m able to log in KDE (i`m posting from Konqueror).Here is the output of

# ls -l /home
total 24
drwx------  8 hui     hui      4096 Jan 20 16:36 hui
drwx------  2 root    root    16384 Jan  8 20:28 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 34 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 20 16:36 svejaka

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#10 2010-01-21 13:46:58

svejaka
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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

Is my permission ok beacause i still can`t use my svejaka account.

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#11 2010-01-21 15:57:53

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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

can you post the output of

ls -la /home/svejaka

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#12 2010-01-21 18:31:42

svejaka
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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

 ls -la /home/svejaka
total 268                           
drwxr-xr-x 34 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 20 16:36 .
drwxr-xr-x  5 root    root     4096 Jan 20 16:33 ..
drwxr-xr-x  4 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 22:26 Arhiv
-rw-------  1 svejaka svejaka    67 Jan 20 16:36 .bash_history
-rw-r--r--  1 svejaka svejaka   220 Jan  8 20:36 .bash_logout 
-rw-r--r--  1 svejaka svejaka  3180 Jan  8 20:36 .bashrc      
drwx------  7 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  9 00:25 .cache       
drwx------  3 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  9 00:30 .compiz      
drwxr-xr-x 10 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 12 17:55 .config      
drwx------  3 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 21:00 .dbus        
drwxr-xr-x  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 21:00 Desktop      
-rw-r--r--  1 svejaka svejaka    42 Jan 12 17:42 .dmrc        
drwxr-xr-x  4 svejaka svejaka  4096 Oct 27 22:49 Documets     
drwxr-xr-x 35 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 15:56 Downloads    
-rw-------  1 svejaka svejaka    16 Jan  8 21:00 .esd_auth    
drwxr-xr-x  3 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 12 17:43 .evolution   
-rw-r--r--  1 svejaka svejaka 17171 Jan 12 17:44 .face        
drwx------  5 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 12 17:47 .gconf       
drwx------  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 12 18:02 .gconfd      
-rw-r-----  1 svejaka svejaka     0 Jan  9 00:05 .gksu.lock   
drwx------  8 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 12 18:02 .gnome2      
drwx------  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 21:00 .gnome2_private
drwx------  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 12 17:42 .gnupg         
drwxr-xr-x  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  9 00:07 .gstreamer-0.10
-rw-r--r--  1 svejaka svejaka   147 Jan 12 17:42 .gtk-bookmarks 
drwx------  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 21:00 .gvfs          
-rw-------  1 svejaka svejaka  2100 Jan 12 17:42 .ICEauthority  
drwxr-xr-x  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  9 00:17 .icons         
drwx------  3 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 19:03 .local         
drwxr-xr-x  9 svejaka svejaka  4096 Dec 17 14:33 Movies         
drwx------  4 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 19:06 .mozilla       
drwxr-xr-x 12 svejaka svejaka  4096 Aug 19 11:12 Music          
drwxr-xr-x  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 21:00 .nautilus
drwxr-xr-x  3 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 12 17:55 .openoffice.org
drwxr-xr-x  7 svejaka svejaka  4096 Nov 19 14:39 Pictures
-rw-r--r--  1 svejaka svejaka   675 Jan  8 20:36 .profile
drwxr-xr-x  8 svejaka svejaka  4096 Oct 16 12:13 Projects
drwx------  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan 12 17:42 .pulse
-rw-------  1 svejaka svejaka   256 Jan  8 21:00 .pulse-cookie
-rw-------  1 svejaka svejaka 63003 Jan 12 18:02 .recently-used.xbel
drwxr-xr-x 12 svejaka svejaka  4096 Dec  4 16:59 Serials
drwx------  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 21:00 .ssh
-rw-r--r--  1 svejaka svejaka     0 Jan  8 19:04 .sudo_as_admin_successful
drwxr-xr-x  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  9 00:17 .themes
drwx------  4 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  9 00:09 .thumbnails
drwxr-xr-x  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 19:11 .update-manager-core
drwx------  2 svejaka svejaka  4096 Jan  8 21:00 .update-notifier
-rw-------  1 svejaka svejaka     0 Jan 20 16:36 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r--  1 svejaka svejaka    56 Jan 19 17:21 .xinitrc
-rw-------  1 svejaka svejaka     0 Jan 20 16:35 .xsession-errors
-rw-------  1 svejaka svejaka  8076 Jan  9 09:47 .xsession-errors.old

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#13 2010-01-21 19:45:14

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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

Make sure you've selected KDE in session button.


/me wants you to detele this account... please delete it.

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#14 2010-01-22 09:34:59

svejaka
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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

Yes it`s selected corectly.

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#15 2010-01-22 18:37:48

svejaka
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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

I gues my only option is to copy all my data from user svejaka--->hui then delete user svejaka....recreate svejaka and copy back all my data from hui---->svejaka.

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#16 2010-01-22 22:15:24

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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

if its really a permissions problem, copying everything in ~/ will screw it up again... if you want to do that, make sure you dont copy the ~/.local/share/kde (i think?) since that's where the problem is.


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#17 2010-01-22 23:01:53

svejaka
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Re: Fresh install kde not starting

No i want to copy only my movies, music and some documents

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