KDE 4.3.4 cannot start

[James Tyrer]

Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
>> I have pre installed what is mentioned in the 
>> http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/KDE4/LFS, others 
>> installed as when needed when compiling KDE. What is not installed in 
>> what you mentioned are only cpptoxml, tapioca-qt and telepathy-qt. 
>> They were not mentioned at the cmake stage yet.
>>
>> I have found why /usr/bin/kdostartupconfig4 fails.
>>
>> /usr/bin/kdostartupconfig4
>> kdostartupconfig4(12560) main: Running kdostartupconfig.
>> kdostartupconfig4(12560) main: 
>> "/root/.kde/share/config/startupconfigkeys"
>> echo $?
>> 3
>> ls -l /root/.kde/share/config/startupconfigkeys
>> ls: /root/.kde/share/config/startupconfigkeys: No such file or directory
>>
>> ls -l /root/.kde4/share/config/startupconfigkeys
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 371 Jan 8 12:49 
>> /root/.kde4/share/config/startupconfigkeys
>>
>> So the file path specified is wrong:
>>
>> QString keysname = KStandardDirs::locateLocal( "config", 
>> "startupconfigkeys" );
>> QFile keys( keysname );
>> if( !keys.open( QIODevice::ReadOnly ))
>>    return 3;
>>
>> Now the question is what environment variable provides .kde4 instead 
>> .kde?
>>
>> Regards
>> Sagara
>>
> 
> I have another update.
> 
> I made a small change in my /etc/profile.d/kde4.sh:
> - KDEHOME=$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.

Do you have a file: "$HOME/.config/menus/applications-kmenuedit.menu"?
> 
> The startkde issues following errors:
> kbuildsycoca4(1388) VFolderMenu::pushDocInfo: Menu 
> "applications-kmenuedit.menu" not found.
> 
> kio_file(1406) kdemain: Starting  1406
> kio_file(1406) FileProtocol::copy: copy():  
> KUrl("file:///root/.kde/share/config/plasmarc")  ->  
> KUrl("file:///root/.kde/share/config/plasma-desktoprc") , mode= -1

Why is it looking for stuff in "/root"?

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James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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