[kde-linux] KDE suddenly refuses to start

[Dale]

Ronald Fischer wrote:
> On one legacy system, I'm still running KDE 2. This worked fine so far, but one day,
> after rebooting, when I did a startx, KDE refuses to start under my account. I can 
> see that the X server gets initialized, but no sign of anything looking like KDE. 
> Instead I find myself back on the command line. No error message on the screen.
>
> I had a look at $HOME/.X.err, but I can only see the usual stuff until it says
>
>   exec kde
>   kpanel
>
> and then "waiting for X server to shutdown".
>
> >From this I conclude that the problem is with KDE, not with X.
>
> I was looking for KDE specific log files, and I thought KDE would log something
> somewhere below $HOME/.kde, but there are no logfiles under that directory.
>
> Next I did a su root and started KDE, and this worked well, so it can't be that
> the KDE installation itself got broken.
>
> Any idea where I could look further for analyzing the problem?
>
> Ronald
>
>   


Some logs are in /var/log/Xorg* and there may be more info in those.  I
think there are two of them.  Not real sure about KDE 2 tho. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)