BandiPat wrote:
Well,
That was fun! Anyone else managed to create havoc with their KDE by updating to the latest KDE files? Seems the kdeinit would not start, thus preventing KDE from loading fully. The build that broke things is kdebase3-3.5.4-39.1, which became available today. From what I could tell from the logs, it was trying to run /opt/kde/bin/start_kdeinit, which is no longer there! Something didn't get changed in the /opt/kde/bin/startkde file or something was left out or named wrong. I'll let the SUSE guys explain which.
Anyway, the quick fix for the problem was to create a link: ln -s /opt/kde/bin/kdeinit /opt/kde/bin/start_kdeinit
I suppose also one could edit the startkde file to change the start_kdeinit line to just kdeinit. Decided on the link for now as I'm sure a fix will be quickly arriving.
Hope that helps some other poor unsuspecting sap that gets eager to update their kde files! ;-)
regards, Lee
Thanks for this posting. There never was a start_kdeinit file just kdeinit. The start_kdeinit in /opt/kde3/bin/startkde was a last minute amendment (at 0429 hours 3/9/06) and I suspect that either the intention was to add a new file called start_kdeinit or rename the current kdeinit to start_kdeinit in /opt/kde3/bin/ but someone got all excited and forgot to do it :-) . The fix is to alter the start_kdeinit in the file /opt/kde3/bin/startkde (or as you suggested putting in a symlink). Thanks for you warning as I had the chance to amend the startkde file before rebooting :-). Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1