KDE 4.3.4 cannot start

[Sagara Wijetunga]

Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
> This qdbus error is due to some reason the dbus session bus started at 
> step 3 above die before run the qdbus in /usr/bin/startkde.
>
> Leaving startkde to launch the dbus session bus works but the 
> plasma-desktop still crashes as before.
>
> Note, this time I have a new dbus related message:
> plasma-desktop(1229) getComponent: Failed to connect to the 
> kglobalaccel daemon 
> QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner", "Could not get 
> owner of name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel': no such name")
>
Sorry, forgot to mention, the dbus session started remains even after 
the plasma-desktop is crashed.

Regards
Sagara

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