From kde-core-devel  Wed Sep 27 17:54:02 2000
From: Francois-Xavier Duranceau <duranceau () free ! fr>
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:54:02 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Can't start KDE
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Matt Koss wrote:
> 
> For last 2 days I can't get KDE to start.
> Finally I did a thorough cvs-clean and even removed all former installation
> and even most of the files in .kde2/config.
> However it didn't help at all.
> 
> Symptoms :
> 
> After I log in, I get a grey screen and a splash window.
> After splash-window is closed, I am left with a grey screen, no icons, no
> kicker, nothing.
> I can't open any menu, do anything.
> 
> Anybody has a clue ?
> 
> I attach my .xsession-errors file, if it can help.
> 
It seems to be related to the new KConfig stuff. KDE has exactly the
same behaviour on my Solaris workstation. And I noticed that it fails to
read (almost?) every desktop file at startup.

FX
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