Problems with KDE4 under Kubuntu Hardy

[Rosalind Mitchell]

Hmm...  I can't believe I'm alone with this problem?

On Thursday 29 May 2008 16:09:14 Rosalind Mitchell wrote:
> I've been trying to get KDE4 running on my ADM64 box under Kubuntu Hardy,
> but it's doing my crust in.  I cannot get it to run beyond the splash
> screen - it goes through all the motions and then dumps me back in the
> login screen.
>
> When KDE4 was first made available as an alpha I tried it out and it worked
> as well as a 4.00 alpha release could be expected to under Gutsy.  However,
> when Hardy came out with an allegedly workable KDE4 option I was keen to
> see if it was in better shape, but I have had no luck in getting it
> running.  Even the live CD version simply loops round and round the startup
> process, returning to the beginning each time.
>
> I have tried logging into a failsafe session and then running
>
> %/usr/lib/kde4/bin/startkde > user.log 2>$1
>
> which produces this output in user.log:
>
> Link points to "/tmp/urizen-kde4/kde-urizen"
> Link points to "/var/tmp/urizen-kde4/kdecache-urizen"
> Link points to "/tmp/urizen-kde4/ksocket-urizen"
> startkde: Starting up...
> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher
> kdeinit4: Launched KLauncher, pid = 7186 result = 0
> kdeinit4: opened connection to :0.0
> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/bin/kded4
> kdeinit4: Launched KDED, pid = 7187 result = 0
> kdeinit4: Got EXT_EXEC '/usr/lib/kde4/bin/kbuildsycoca4' from launcher.
> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/bin/kbuildsycoca4
> kbuildsycoca4 running...
> kdeinit4: PID 7189 terminated.
> kdeinit4: Got EXEC_NEW 'kconf_update' from launcher.
> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update
> kdeinit4: PID 7190 terminated.
> kdeinit4: PID 7187 terminated.
> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/bin/kcminit_startup
> kdeinit4: Launched 'kcminit_startup', pid = 7191 result = 0
> kdeinit4: Got SETENV 'KDE_MULTIHEAD=false' from klauncher.
> kdeinit4: PID 7191 terminated.
> kdeinit4: Got KWRAPPER 'ksmserver' from socket.
> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/bin/ksmserver
> <unknown program name>(7194)/ KStartupInfo::createNewStartupId:
> creating:  "scafell;1212072492;737122;7194_TIME0" : "unnamed app"
> kdeinit4: PID 7194 terminated.
> kdeinit4: Got
> SETENV
> 'SESSION_MANAGER=local/scafell:/tmp/.ICE-unix/7195,inet6/scafell:50174,inet
>/scafell:44789' from klauncher.
> kdeinit4: Got EXEC_NEW 'kwin' from launcher.
> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/bin/kwin
> kdeinit4: Got EXEC_NEW 'kconf_update' from launcher.
> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/lib/kde4/libexec/kconf_update
> kdeinit4: PID 7199 terminated.
> Hangup
> GOT SIGHUP
> Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer:
> Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-lYPyTxiGsa: Connection refused
> startkde: Shutting down...
> kdeinit4: terminate KDE.
> kded4: Fatal IO error: client killed
> klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
> kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed
> ksmserver: Fatal IO error: client killed
> startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
> No protocol specified
> xprop:  unable to open display ':0'
> No protocol specified
> xprop:  unable to open display ':0'
> startkde: Done.
>
> I've searched and searched but I seem to be alone with this.  Does anybody
> have any ideas to rescue this maiden in distress?
>
> Rosie



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