After updating to Debian 11, many problem in KDE
René J.V. Bertin
rjvbertin at gmail.com
Tue Oct 17 11:09:13 BST 2023
On Tuesday October 17 2023 09:31:09 Luca Bertoncello wrote:
\>It appears a little window from startkde with the message "startkde:
>Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation."
>
>Unfortunately I couldn't find any other detailled error.
*Something* launches `startkde`. On my legacy KUbuntu system that's `upstart`, and this keeps a logfile that contains all the terminal output of applications launched through the GUI. I don't know what service Debian 11 uses to bootstrap the desktop environment but my bet is that it must leave a logfile somewhere.
If not, there is always the possibility to rename the ksmserver binary to ksmserver.bin (or something like that) and put a shell script at its place that launches this renamed binary and redirects all output to file.
But have you checked if ksmserver exists on your system and that `ksmserver --help` executes OK?
R.
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