[kde-linux] Starting up KDE hangs with a black desktop and movable mouse cursor.

[Phillip Pi]

On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 05:28:57PM -1000, david wrote:
> Phillip Pi wrote:
> 
> > Two days ago on my home Debian system, I exited KDE v3.5.x (not sure
> > exactly what version I have) and X back to console/text mode and
> > restarted it (startx) but now I get a hang. I see a black desktop/GUI/X
> > with a movable mouse cursor after seeing NVIDIA logo and an one second
> > gray desktop. I have to use ctrl-alt-backspace to kill X to get out of
> > it.
> > 
> > I did some investigations and experiments as well. You can see the logs,
> > results, etc. in
> > http://www.kde-forum.org/artikel/17919/Starting-up-KDE-hangs-with-a-black-desktop-and-mov.html
> > thread since they would be too much to post in here.
> > 
> > Thank you in advance. :)
> 
> I had KDE 3.5.8 until updating yesterday. Every since then, attempts to 
> start KDE from command line report either not finding kdeinit or errors 
> trying to run kdeinit. I even removed everything KDE and reinstalled it, 
> still having same problems.

Do you remember what was updated yesterday? I updated on Friday because
I saw kdelibs (4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-3) so I decided to restart X. I don't know
if kdelib update caused the problem since I haven't restart X for like
two weeks! Is this what you did too?

 
> BUT to make things more strange - the KDE 3.5.7 runs fine if I start it 
> using "exec startkde" inside an XShell in Fluxbox!!!!

Ha, in Gnome and its terminal, I tried that just now but it hangs at
"Setting up interprocess communication." at the first blinking icon
(wheel) and hangs. Terminal shows "startkde: starting up" (same as 
shown in logs).

 
> For now, I'm adding more drive space to my file server, then I'll backup 
> my home directory and reinstall ... stupid computers!

:(
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