kde crash with Debian XFree upgrade

[Glen Lee Edwards]

The short version:

KDE 3.1a build from source, X!! built from source, KDE won't run.  It compiled with no problems, and 
goes through the startup process fine, but the individual processes that kdeinit starts crash almost 
immediately after starting.  Suggestions?

The long version:

After fighting with Debian packages that don't work or crash, I finally started compiling the more 
important front end programs from scratch, KDE included.  I've been doing this for about a year. 
With the last apt-get upgrade, which upgraded the XFree deb packages and dependencies, KDE 3.1 
crashed.  It will go through the init process, showing the started process with each process being 
started - peripherals, window manager, etc., and then after finishing the startup, there's no KDE. 
Apparently most processes die (except the FVWM window manager which keeps working) almost 
immediately after startup.  So this week I removed all the XWindow and its dependent deb packages 
and compiled XFree, dependencies, etc, and KDE 3.1.1a from source as standalone programs (not deb 
packages).  I'm getting much better performance from X (faster, higher resolutions), but KDE 3.1.1a 
is doing the same crash sequence as 3.1 - it goes through the startup sequence and on exit, no KDE.

Suggestions?

Regards,

Glen


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