[SOLVED]Cant access to KDE4.5 desktop after recent upgrade.

Hyugga · 2010-10-09 22:35:33

I just did pacman -Syu, and there was several KDE desktop updates.
The problem is that when the kdm daemon is launched, the default mouse appears but after that it drops me to tty1 terminal. If run startkde it says $DISPLAY is not set or cannot access to x, or something. I tried reinstalling the packages in /var/cache/packman/pkg but nothing happened.

Help please!

Last edited by Hyugga (2010-10-10 15:19:02)

Hyugga · 2010-10-09 23:08:59

When i reinstall kdebase-workspace it says someting like the permissions in /var/lib/kdm are diferent the filesystem has 700, and package has 755.

What is that?

Last edited by Hyugga (2010-10-09 23:11:08)

skunktrader · 2010-10-10 00:12:15

The permissions on your machine dont match what the package is expecting

sudo chmod 755 /var/lib/kdm

Hyugga · 2010-10-10 01:41:27

That did not work...
When i try to run startkde i get this message:

$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server.

Thanks!

Hyugga · 2010-10-10 05:16:04

Is there repositories where i can download older packages?
Like KDE 4.5.1?

Last edited by Hyugga (2010-10-10 05:17:16)

jac · 2010-10-10 12:40:10

In a tty there DISPLAY is not set because X is not running, you can't run startkde straight from there. You must put it in .xinitrc and run xinit, for example.

Finding old versions

RobertMe · 2010-10-10 12:45:52

Or you should run startx `which startkde` which has the same behavior as placing startkde in your .xinitrc (only is this just temporary for this specific startx call)

spupy · 2010-10-10 13:14:13

Here nothing from KDE starts. The problem comes from the fact that /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5 is missing the symbol "_ZN9QListData11detach_growEPIii". Do you have the same problem? Look in logs in /var/log/kdm.log

Last edited by spupy (2010-10-10 13:14:44)

Hyugga · 2010-10-10 14:43:48

Downgrading some packages from 4.5.2 to 4.5.1 i can finally see the kdm login screen, but when i login it says something like kdeinit4 can't start and that i must check my installation.
If i run startx i get to the default X window system i presume. I can use firefox, but nothing that is qt based.

Thanks for the replies, i-m doing some downgrading work rigth now.

mcordv · 2010-10-10 15:02:42

I fixed this issue before, It's unnecesary to downgrade!!!
Autoquote:

I fixed. The solution is to edit /usr/bin/startkde and find the line:

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

Hyugga · 2010-10-10 15:18:42

Wow!!! It was like some mystic magic!
I works right away!

Can't i update the system too?
Thanks! I'll maks this as solved.

spupy · 2010-10-10 15:21:51

I solved the problem in my case by reinstalling Qt. Seems we had different problems.

mcordv · 2010-10-10 15:25:45

Hyugga wrote:

Wow!!! It was like some mystic magic!
I works right away!
Can't i update the system too?
Thanks! I'll maks this as solved.

Yes, you can update without problems, and you know, if kde crash again you have the super mystic magic, jaja.

Bye

anti-destin · 2010-11-14 18:54:22

skunktrader wrote:

The permissions on your machine dont match what the package is expecting
sudo chmod 755 /var/lib/kdm

just wanted to say thanks. i had the same error when updating:

[2010-11-05 12:47] warning: /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc installed as /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.pacnew
[2010-11-05 12:47] warning: directory permissions differ on var/lib/kdm/
filesystem: 700  package: 755

i changed the permissions using your command, so hopefully all is all right now.

still, it's strange. any idea what happened? i've never touched the permissions.

Arch Linux

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