On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Bradley T. Hughes wrote: > since doing the netwm stuff for kde2, i figured i'd try out my changes in > the full kde2 environment... unfortunately, i can't get kde2 to start > > the kulprit: > > kio (KLauncher): KLauncher: Got start_service_by_desktop_name('knotify', > ...) > KKInit: Got EXEC 'knotify' from klauncher > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/home/bhughes/kde2/lib/libmcop.so.0: Undefined symbol "__nw__FUiPv" ^^^^^ This is related to arts since it uses MCOP and not DCOP... Did you try doing a make clean (cvs-clean if cvs copy) and recompiling again or was this a clean install ?? > kdeinit: Pipe closed unexpected. > > > i get this several times, and apparently dcop/applications block while > waiting for a replay from knotify (which never happens, and there doesn't > seem to be a timeout) > > Matthias suggested taking the arts "stuff" out of the startkde script, but > i see nothing in there relating to arts... > > so... exactly how do i get kde2 running now? :) Did you try what Matthias suggested ? MCOP will not be utilized if you stop the artsd from being started... Regards, Dawit A.