kde crash with Debian XFree upgrade

[James Richard Tyrer]

Glen Lee Edwards wrote:
> 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.
> 

Can you get a log of the KDE messages?  Or, just the error message 
when it crashed?

I would start X11 naked (no window manager) except for an Xterm (this 
is often called  and execute "startkde" in the Xterm.  Or, you can 
execute [as user]:

	startx -e startkde

in the console after exiting your X session.

And the same thing should happen.  See what the last few lines of 
messages say after it fails.

--
JRT

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