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Back2Cali

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-02-26

Posts: 223

What's wrong with KDE???

Hi everybody!

Since the last update of the KDE to version 3.5.4 and updating kernel26beyond to its latest version I KDE doesn't start any longer. After KDM is started and I logged in my computer loads for 2 seconds an suddenly stops loading anything. Switching to a console works, but whatever I want to do there also hangs. I can't even restart the system after trying to start KDE. Since there was a similar problem last time having startup times around 3 minutes or so I thought I'll give it some time to load. But nothing happened for around 15 minutes. So I had to push the reset button. I installed XFCE to check if it's a general problem, but starting XFCE worked. So does anyone know what the problem might be and how to fix it? Thanks!

BYE
Christian

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: What's wrong with KDE???

Anything of note in your ~/.xsession-errors file?

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idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: What's wrong with KDE???

Did you find out anything? I have a similar problem ..

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qwerty

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Registered: 2004-12-17

Posts: 183

Re: What's wrong with KDE???

Maybe i've had the same problem...
After i updated kde and kernel26beyond kde crash just everytime i try to do anything (start apps ecc ecc..). I have an ati videocard and i was using the fglrx accel drivers and this was the problem for me. Everything works again if i use vesa or ati (not fglrx) drivers.

chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: What's wrong with KDE???

If it's any help, I found that KDE refused to start if /etc/rc.d/network wasn't started.  Don't know if it's related, but thought it was worth mentioning.

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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: What's wrong with KDE???

If it's any help, I found that KDE refused to start if /etc/rc.d/network wasn't started.  Don't know if it's related, but thought it was worth mentioning.

Perhaps KDE uses the loopback device (fake internet device that sends packages back to the computer instead of sending to an internet device), that is also started by the network daemon.

That's happening in gnome too iirc...

kth5

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Registered: 2004-04-29

Posts: 657

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Re: What's wrong with KDE???

dcop requires lo to be setup, else it won't work. also if you set hostnames that do not match a reachable address or cannot be resolved, x startup may slow down.

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chrismortimore

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From: Edinburgh, UK

Registered: 2006-07-15

Posts: 655

Re: What's wrong with KDE???

dcop requires lo to be setup, else it won't work.

Ah, that explains it.  Cheers for clearing that up for me

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