KDE 4.3.4 cannot start

[Sagara Wijetunga]

James Tyrer wrote:
>
> I have these packages installed:
>
> DBus
> DBus-Glib
> HAL
> HAL-Info
> PolicyKit
> EggDBus
> polkit
> ConsoleKit
>
> I don't really know if they are all really dependencies for KDE, but 
> they are what is normally installed on a system using D-Bus/HAL/PolicyKit.
>
>   

All are installed here too.


> If you installed KDE-4 in a directory other than "/usr" or "/usr/local" 
> you need to add the directory to the list in:
>
> /etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf
>
>
>   

The KDE is installed in /usr.


> The other suggestion for debugging would be to start X with only an X 
> terminal and then execute:
>
> 	echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
>
> If you don't get an answer, then:
>
> 	eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
>
> and check it:
>
> 	echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
>
> With D-Bus up and running, execute:
>
> 	<full_path>/startkde >kde.log 2>&1
>
> This should give you a shorter log with only KDE issues.
>
> There are also tools for D-Bus: dbus-*.  Read the man pages
>
>   

Here is what I did:

1. cat > .xinitrc << "EOF"
# Begin .xinitrc file
xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &
xclock -g 100x100-0+0 &
twm
EOF

2. startx

3. On xterm:
No $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS yet
eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`

echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
unix:path=/var/tmp/dbus-XdU7IrFpIn,guid=4ea14ef09629ea18bde8fbb64b4d4b09

4. On xterm:
/usr/bin/startkde >kde.log 2>&1

xmessage pop up:
Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?

Here is the kde.log:

kdostartupconfig4(7634) main: Running kdostartupconfig.
kdostartupconfig4(7634) main: 
"/usr/home/testuser/.kde4/share/config/startupconfigkeys"
kdostartupconfig4(7634) KLocalePrivate::initEncoding: Cannot resolve 
system encoding, defaulting to ISO 8859-1.
xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
Link points to "/tmp/testuser-kde4/kde-testuser"
Link points to "/var/tmp/testuser-kde4/kdecache-testuser"
Link points to "/tmp/testuser-kde4/ksocket-testuser"
startkde: Starting up...
startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?

Regards
Sagara

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