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#1 2008-02-04 07:58:33

aardwolf
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2005-07-23
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startkde not found anymore

Hi,

I've got Archlinux on a slightly older PC that I'm maintaining less then my new PC. Also, this PC is standing in a home where there is a monthly bandwidth limit, so I can't do a lot of "pacman -Syu".

I upgraded things separatly now after months of no upgrades at all.

I updated qt, gtk2, kdebase without problems, it could reboot and everything.

Then I upgraded xorg, and now after rebooting and wanting to start kde (with startx, which eventually calls startkde), it says: startkde command not found.

So startkde disappeared somewhere.

How can I make it work again?

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#2 2008-02-04 09:00:37

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From: Castalia
Registered: 2007-02-02
Posts: 368

Re: startkde not found anymore

try running as root:
/opt/kde/bin/kdm

smile

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#3 2008-02-04 10:57:52

aardwolf
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From: Belgium
Registered: 2005-07-23
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Re: startkde not found anymore

What will doing this do? Will it create a new startkde file/command/....?

Where should startkde normally be and how did it get removed?

Also sort of related: I also upgraded bash with pacman. It now says that the shutdown command isn't found anymore. How could that one have been removed?

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#4 2008-02-04 11:12:44

kendosperling
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From: Dresden
Registered: 2007-08-28
Posts: 49

Re: startkde not found anymore

I had the same problem and solved the problem by updating my path variable. In order to do this add the following line to your .bashrc

export PATH=$PATH:/opt/kde/bin

Last edited by kendosperling (2008-02-04 11:13:03)

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#5 2008-02-04 12:15:59

PJ
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From: Sweden
Registered: 2005-10-11
Posts: 602

Re: startkde not found anymore

I am guessing that the kde.sh in /etc/profile.d/ lost the exec flag (somehow). To see if this is the problem you can use ls -l /etc/profile.d/  If this is the problem it is easy to fix by doing a chmod 755 on the file and finally do a relogin.

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#6 2008-02-04 12:23:28

kendosperling
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Re: startkde not found anymore

You are right, that solved the problem also. Thanks

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#7 2008-02-04 13:08:08

funkyou
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Registered: 2006-03-19
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Re: startkde not found anymore

PJ wrote:

I am guessing that the kde.sh in /etc/profile.d/ lost the exec flag (somehow). To see if this is the problem you can use ls -l /etc/profile.d/  If this is the problem it is easy to fix by doing a chmod 755 on the file and finally do a relogin.

It isnt necessary to set it executable, and not a good idea when having a parallell install of KDE3/KDE4...

More info here (read the comments): http://kdemod.ath.cx/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=88


want a modular and tweaked KDE for arch? try kdemod

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#8 2008-02-04 13:25:03

PJ
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From: Sweden
Registered: 2005-10-11
Posts: 602

Re: startkde not found anymore

funkyou wrote:

It isnt necessary to set it executable, and not a good idea when having a parallell install of KDE3/KDE4...

More info here (read the comments): http://kdemod.ath.cx/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=88

I didn't know that it was actually intended, guess I have to source those files from my .bashrc file (I am only using kdemod(3)). Anyway, thanks for the information! smile

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