SOLVED [KDE 3.5.3 fails loading desktop]

[tr]

Everything has worked fine in my remasterings but now I got a problem. Dist-upgrading from KDE 3.5.2 to KDE 3.5.3 removed kdelibs-bin and now KDE starts but fails in loading destkop. I'm not sure if there is coming any kdelibs-bin package to unstable - I think that kdelibs is replacement for it. What to do?

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[tr]

I still can't get KDE to go forward after Loading Desktop. Could there be some changes in 3.5.3's startup process so that /etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession can't start KDE anymore? At least in page http://www.kde.org/announcements/cha...5_2to3_5_3.php is mentioned of kdebase:

New: KDE startup reordered in order to improve startup time.

How to get 45xsession fixed so that init 5 starts KDE?

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[mikekgr]

Dear Tr,

I suffer from the same "kind" of problem. I have older version of knoppix installed at my Hard Disk and after last apt-get upgrade the "loading" of the KDE stopped at Loading Desktop and if you wait 2-3 minutes you will see only the wallpaper of the screen nothing more...

Did you find any solution may be related to 45Xsession file???

What do you think??

Best Regards,
Mike Kranidis

[tr]

Did you find any solution may be related to 45Xsession file???

Yes, this must be 45xsession problem, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-knopp.../msg00068.html
I don't know how to fix this, yet

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[mikekgr]

thanks a lot.
Please if you find the solution let me knows.... for the time being I reverted a recent backup so I have 3.5.2 at least

Bye

[mikekgr]

Dear tapsa,

did you found any solution on the above mentioned problem????

Anybody else found a solution???

Please help
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[tr]

did you found any solution on the above mentioned problem????

Sorry, I have not. Perhaps we need to wait until Mr. Knopper or Kano makes a new release. I don't even be sure any more if this is a 45xsession problem or KDE bug.

According to my experience there's also problems with new 2.6.17 kernel. My old 2.6.16. kernel works fine but with 2.6.17 kernel ndiswrapper don't work. So peculiar as it looks like, I also have problems starting dcopserver - with new 2.6.17 kernel (having in same DVD two bootable kernels) Nothing wrong with my old kernel http://tapsa.terae.net/linux/knoppix....16-beyond4.1/

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[Palvarado]

Hello everybody,

I've been playing around, and I think the problem lies in the definition of the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW within the '/etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession' script, which should be now exactly defined as in the '/usr/bin/startkde' script. I haven't test it yet though.

Regards,

Pablo

[mikekgr]

Dear Palvarado,
thanks a lot for the suggestion.
Because I am not linux guru, only user here, how can solve the problem follows your suggestion???

Best Regards
Mike Kranidis

[tr]

I've been playing around, and I think the problem lies in the definition of the environment variable LD_BIND_NOW within the '/etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession' script, which should be now exactly defined as in the '/usr/bin/startkde' script. I haven't test it yet though.

Hi Palvarado, you did it! This really works!

To those who don't understand what to do, I try to explain this as clearly as possibly. You must change the following portion in
/etc/X11/Xsession.d/45xsession file
from:

# kdeinit unsets this variable before loading applications.
 LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit || \
 { xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation"; return 1; }

to:

# kdeinit unsets this variable before loading applications.
LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit --new-startup +kcminit_startup
if test $? -ne 0; then
  # Startup error
  echo 'startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.'  1>&2
  xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation."
fi

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