KDE 4.3.4 cannot start

Sagara Wijetunga sagara at tomahawk.com.sg
Thu Jan 7 09:03:20 GMT 2010


James Tyrer wrote:
> Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
>   
>> James Tyrer wrote:
>>     
>>> Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> I have compiled only following KDE components from sources on
>>>> Tomahawk Desktop (which is based on FreeBSD 7.2): 
>>>> Oxygen-Icons-4.3.4 kdelibs-4.3.4 KdeLibs-experimental-4.3.4 
>>>> KdePimLibs-4.3.4 kdebase-workspace-4.3.4 KdeBase-4.3.4 
>>>> kdebase-runtime-4.3.4
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Please read the instruction:
>>>
>>> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4.x
>>>
>>> and check the required packages:
>>>
>>> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/LFS
>>>
>>> Specifically, you need to either install KDESupport or the binaries
>>> for all of the packages which it contains before you build KDELibs.
>>>
>>>
>>> If this doesn't answer your problem, get back to us.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Hi
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.
>>
>> Tomahawk Desktop is very similar to LFS, therefore, I followed the 
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/LFS and 
>> http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/KDE4.
>>
>> I did not install KDESupport but installed "KDE4 Support" components
>> of the http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/KDE4 and installed "KDE
>> Core Packages" and then tried the startkde.
>>
>>     
> I wasn't really able to determine from you error logs, exactly why it
> failed to start up.  This isn't that simple since there are errors even 
> if it starts OK.
>
> There does appear to be an issue with Python and Glib that you should 
> look into, but I doubt that this is the cause of the KDE problem -- 
> configure, build, & install "glib-2" & "pygobject" again and see if that 
> fixes it.
>
> However, these instructions are wrong:
>
> http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org/index.php/Starting_KDE
>
> I suggest that you try this for your ~/.xinitrc file:
>
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------
>
> eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
>
> exec startkde
>
> ------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------8<------
>
> If you still have problems, try this command:
>
> 	startx > Xuser.log 2>&1
>
> and see if it was an X error that caused termination.
>
>   
The Python issue was known and seems harmless.

I have found an error, some important variables mentioned in 
http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4.x were not set 
properly. I have fixed it and then ran startkde, now it complain following:
**
kstartupconfig4 does not exist or failed. The error code is 3. Check 
your installation.

kstartupconfig4 exists:
type kstartupconfig4
kstartupconfig4 is /usr/bin/kstartupconfig4

I have Google searched on kstartupconfig4 issue, but still could not 
find a proper fix, any idea to share?

Regards
Sagara

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