KDE 4.3.4 cannot start

[James Tyrer]

Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> 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?
> 

Check for qdbus, if you haven't already.

If you have "which" installed, execute:

	which qdbus

If it doesn't find it, this would meand that the Qt-4 'bin' directory
isn't on your PATH.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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