* Dirk Müller
On Friday 24 July 2009, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
try launching "kdeinit4" manually and see if there is an error message. most likely something with "undefined symbol". please paste that. kdeinit4: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
Okay, please try from a X "failsafe" session.
removed the soft link to /opt/kde3/bin/start_kdeinit_wrapper The kde-failsafe menu offering results in the same "unable to start" notice. The plain failsafe opens an xterm session and issuing "kdeinit4" provides: 22:43 wahoo:~ > kdeinit4 kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kded4.so kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so kbuildsycoca4 running... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kbuildsycoca4.so kbuildsycoca4 running... kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kconf_update.so and no error more info: from this failsafe xterm I can issue kdeinit4 rckdm start (as root) plasma-desktop and I have a running desktop/system lacking some of my extras, kjots, ktea, etc. Do you need any other info? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org