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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

KDE crashes upon startup

Title says it all. I type 'startx', kde slash screen halts at "loading peripherals" (at least I think that's what it was), mouse freezes up, X won't respond to ctrl-alt-backspace, I am forced to hit the power button. I have never seen things crash like this before on Linux.

I tried starting X again, same thing. Reinstalled KDE, same thing. (Yeah, crude Winduhs-ish method I suppose... But I've only been hooked on Linux for 6 months or so. )

(Just a note... I am not a regular KDE user. I just decided to try something new...)

tpowa

Developer

From: Lauingen , Germany

Registered: 2004-04-05

Posts: 2,328

Re: KDE crashes upon startup

hi
did you run pacman -Syu before installing kde ?
do you have a loopback interface with localhost defined ?
does your networkcard have an entry in /etc/hosts ?
kde runs fine in arch, so it should run for you too

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

Posts: 657

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Re: KDE crashes upon startup

kde runs fine in arch, so it should run for you too

my thoughts exactly!

did you by any chance just misconfigure your /etc/X11/xorg.conf or didn't do it at all nor ran xorgconfig?  :!:

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Gullible Jones

Member

Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: KDE crashes upon startup

Yes, yes, yes, and no.

(My xorg.conf was made with xorgconfig, then modified to enable 3D acceleration.)

KDE worked fine for me once... and then started in with this, and has done this ever since.

Mith

Member

From: out there

Registered: 2004-10-05

Posts: 163

Re: KDE crashes upon startup

hey i've got another problem..
I ran an pacman -Syu yesterday and updated the nvidia drivers.. and now kdm won't start anymore. startx works fine and the nvidia logo comes up but whenever i run kdm nothing comes up..
any ideas?

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