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archos

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Registered: 2011-11-21

Posts: 2

kde daemon crash at startup. kde on Arch.

I just installed Arch the first time. after some unsuccessful attemps to with awesome, I tried to install xfce and kde. I managed to get both running without problems, but after further installation of additional packages (like amarok1, alsa, kile, qtoctave, stellarium, GIMP, Geeqie, Ktorrent, Kopete), the KDE daemon crashes at startup ad a kde crash bug report is displayed. I can't see any window content or windows any more, but other functionality like tabbing through windows or quicklaunch still works. I can get window content if I kill the plasma-desktop. (There also isn't any sound.)

I followed thou the beginners guide and also official installation, checked the archlinux wiki on KDE and others, googled. I can't figure out what happened.

I'm running following Daemons:

/etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(hwclock @syslog-ng dbus netfs crond alsa @cups)

I start kdm through etc/inittab as suggested on archwiki kde.

startx runs fine, I suspect thou that I'm missing some xinit config files, but not sure thou what is needed as I start kdm through inittab.

I'd be glad for any suggestions or help! =)

full /etc/inittab, /etc/rc.conf, /var/log/Xorg.0.log on:

http://pastebin.com/UBysin7q

I have a Lenovo X220 Laptop plus externalmonitor, which runs fine.

b4data

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Registered: 2010-12-14

Posts: 141

Re: kde daemon crash at startup. kde on Arch.

When you say 'kde daemon', what do you mean exactly? What does the kde crash bug report say? Have you tried removing your kde config directory? Anything in ~/.xsession-errors?

archos

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Registered: 2011-11-21

Posts: 2

Re: kde daemon crash at startup. kde on Arch.

Problem solved. I reinstalled arch and kde desktop environment. everything works smooth now

thank you thou anyway for your help. I looked into ~/.xsession-errors , but there we're just too many error messages. I believe the problem was linked to phonon-vlc.