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jlacroix

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Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

[SOLVED] KDM and KDE won't start

I just set up a new Arch install and I am new to this distro. I set up KDM to start automatically by putting it as the last thing in the rc.conf file, and I also tried the inittab method and both don't work.

What happens is my system boots into KDM for a half a second, and crashes back to the text login. If I log in as a normal user and try "startx" I get "could not start kdeinit4 check your installation". XTerm seems to work.

In my KDM log it doesn't show anything incriminating, it just shows that it started X and then closed X. I tried without an xorg.conf file, but the same thing happened.

I am hoping someone might have had this happen and know the answer?

Last edited by jlacroix (2009-09-06 01:03:52)

deej

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Registered: 2008-02-08

Posts: 395

Re: [SOLVED] KDM and KDE won't start

Do you have / have you set up a video card ?
If so, could you post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

It would help a lot if we knew the machine you were installing on:
Desktop / sloppy-top / Mac .... and the type of video card: onboard video,
nVidia, Ati... etc

Deej

jlacroix

Member

Registered: 2009-08-16

Posts: 576

Re: [SOLVED] KDM and KDE won't start

Do you have / have you set up a video card ?
If so, could you post your /var/log/Xorg.0.log ?

It would help a lot if we knew the machine you were installing on:
Desktop / sloppy-top / Mac .... and the type of video card: onboard video,
nVidia, Ati... etc

Deej

Thank you for the reply. I finally got it working by reinstalling Qt. I am wondering what I did to break it but I am new so I guess I'll learn.