KDE 4.3.4 cannot start

[Duncan]

Sagara Wijetunga posted on Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:44:17 +0800 as excerpted:

> I have another update.
> 
> I made a small change in my /etc/profile.d/kde4.sh:
> - KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde4
> + KDEHOME=$HOME/.kde
> 
> Now startx does not pop with kstartupconfig4 issue and it continue. I
> get a very nice graphical screen, hard disk icon come first, I get some
> more icons, and I finally get the KDE logo and then run for a while and
> plasma-desktop crashes.

> Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Did not
> receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not
> send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the
> reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken." "

What version of hal are you running?  What version of qt4?  What 
platform, 32-bit x86, amd64/x86_64, or other?  If it's only plasma-
desktop-crashing, you can probably use alt-F2 to bring up krunner, and 
run individual apps from there, tho of course that's a poor replacement 
for all the services and eye candy plasma-desktop provides.

I forgot which list (the general kde list or the Linux one) I posted my 
(different thread) reply to, but there, for the OP, kde was starting, but 
plasma-desktop was crashing.  In my first reply, I noted that I had the 
same issue on my (brand new installation so no working history to go on, 
and a fresh user config as well) netbook, but that my main machine was 
working fine.  But on the problem machine, as indicated above, I could 
still run stuff in kde using krunner, and little else seemed affected.

I run Gentoo, and found the issue listed in Gentoo's bugzilla.  
Apparently, hal-0.5.14 doesn't get along well with qt-4.6.0 -- but ONLY 
on some archs -- 32-bit x86 has the problem, amd64 aka x86_64 doesn't.  
I'm not sure on other archs.

So I package.masked hal-0.5.14 on my netbook, thus forcing a downgrade to 
0.5.13-r2 (the -r2 notation indicating this is the third (r0 is the 
first, with the -r0 bit left off) gentoo version bump of the same 
upstream package version).  The alternative was of course to package-mask 
qt-4.6.0, but it's a bigger package (actually, on Gentoo, set of 
packages) and would have required longer to recompile, so I went with the 
easy one.

It worked!  plasma-desktop quit crashing!  So maybe you have the same 
issue, now that you've worked thru the others, if you're 32-bit x86, and 
running qt-4.6.0 and hal-0.5.14.

Even if that's not the issue, perhaps you can use krunner to start the 
critical stuff, until you figure out what's wrong with plasma-desktop.  
Among other things (and it wasn't clear from your post, maybe you're 
doing this already), if krunner is working, you can use it to invoke 
konsole, and then try running plasma-desktop from konsole.  That might 
work, or it might still crash, but at least then, you can follow the 
plasma-desktop errors specifically, without having all the other kde-
launching output to work thru as well.

-- 
Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

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