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mcordv

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Registered: 2010-08-03

Posts: 23

[SOLVED] KDE fails to start (kdeinit4)

Hi everyone,

I installed KDE 4.5 today, and when I start the session, it displays the splash screen but crash and show me the error message

"Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation."

I already looked for information in the wiki and google, and I'm really lost.

Thanks for you help.

Last edited by mcordv (2010-10-05 20:12:58)

evot

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From: Finland

Registered: 2010-02-26

Posts: 96

Re: [SOLVED] KDE fails to start (kdeinit4)

Do you use KDM as daemon to start KDE?

mcordv

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Registered: 2010-08-03

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] KDE fails to start (kdeinit4)

No, I start with xinitrc with the line

exec ck-launch-session startkde

Thanks

mcordv

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Registered: 2010-08-03

Posts: 23

Re: [SOLVED] KDE fails to start (kdeinit4)

I fixed. The solution is to edit /usr/bin/startkde:

LD_BIND_NOW=true /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/start_kdeinit_wrapper +kcminit_startup
if test $? -ne 0; then
  # Startup error
  echo 'startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation.'  1>&2
  test -n "$ksplash_pid" && kill "$ksplash_pid" 2>/dev/null
  xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation$
  exit 1
fi

and break the line:

LD_BIND_NOW=true 
/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/start_kdeinit_wrapper +kcminit_startup

That's all

moigagoo

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Registered: 2012-07-02

Posts: 1

Re: [SOLVED] KDE fails to start (kdeinit4)

In my particular case the trouble was that I had attica-git installed whereas attica was required to start KDE. SO I just installed it from extra