Unable to start up KDE due to hanging with a black desktop and movable mouse cursor.

[Phillip Pi]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 10:20:15AM -0800, Phillip Pi wrote:
> > > > There is a Debian bug report about this now.
> > > >
> > > > I am going to submit the archive reference of this thread and the one
> > > > from kde-linux as additional information.
> > > >
> > > > Would be interesting to know if non-nvidia users are experiencing this as
> > > > well, IIRC so far all reporters seem to use NVidia cards (with different
> > > > drivers though)
> > >
> > > Check this out on the newsgroup (just replied to him to come to this
> > > mailing list thread to help us):
> > 
> > OK.
> > 
> > The Debian bug report now contains a couple of possible solutions.
> > 
> > If they (or one of them) work for you, could you probably relay it to the 
> > newsgroup as well?
> 
> Oops. I lost the URL. Can you please kindly repost that? :( I can work 
> on it once I get it.

Uh, I am a dork. Nevermind the URL
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=452053) since I am not
fully awake! The solution for me that worked:

Simply changing in /usr/bin/startkde file:
LD_BIND_NOW=true start_kdeinit --new-startup +kcminit_startup
to
LD_BIND_NOW=true start_kdeinit_wrapper --new-startup +kcminit_startup

Yeehaw! OK, so it is a known issue and a temporary fix. Do I assume 
future kdelibs4c2a package upgrade will have the fix and replace this 
edited file.

Thank you! Goodbye, Gnome!
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