[kde-linux] No panel?

[Kevin Krammer]

On Tuesday 09 May 2006 14:35, Russel Hill wrote:
> On 5/5/06, Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at> wrote:
> > On Friday 05 May 2006 06:40, Russel Hill wrote:
> > > I had KDE running just fine a few days ago.  I run my box more-or-less
> > > headless using a vnc serrver.  Then, I switched to debian unstable and
> > > dist-upgraded...  I worked through some fontpath issues and managed to
> > > get the vncserver running again, but it comes up without a panel.
> > > Running kicker from the konsole does bring up a panel (thankfully, a
> > > konsole gets started).  I've tried:
> > >
> > > - cleaning /tmp
> > > - cleaning /var/tmp
> > > - cleaning ~/.kde (both surgically and with a big hammer)
> > > - creating a new user
> >
> > If it fails for a new user, it is probably something in the
> > installation/global config.
> >
> > Do you have
> > /usr/share/autostart/panel.desktop
> > package "kicker"
>
> I have the file and the package. I can start them manually.  It seems
> that nothing in /usr/share/autostart is starting like it should.
>
> Any thoughts?

Hmm. There have been several issues related to the change of X.org 6.9->7.0 in 
unstable.
Maybe you are bitten by one of them (in case you had that as part of your 
upgrade)
See the debian-kde mailinglist archives

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer at gmx.at>
Qt/KDE Developer, Debian User
Moderator: www.mrunix.de (German), www.qtcentre.org