Scott Newton wrote:

> On Sunday, 14 November 2004 17:22, Scott Newton wrote:
> 
>>>Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.
> 
> 
> I've managed to fix this but am still a bit at a lost as to why it happened.
> 
> The latest updates didn't fix the problem so I tried a make clean in the 
> ksmserver directory and rebuilt it. No luck. So I removed the ksmserver 
> completely and then did the normal cvs up, make -f Makefile.cvs, configure, 
> make and make install routine. Now ksmserver no longer complained but at the 
> end of kwin coming up I had no desktop, no kicker, nothing except a screen 
> containing the desktop that the login screen has and the knotes icon stuck in 
> the middle of the screen. Looking through .xsession-errors I now had the 
> following:
> Could not find kdemain: /usr/lib/kde3/kwin.so: undefined symbol: main
> Could not find kdemain: /usr/lib/kde3/kdesktop.so: undefined symbol: main
> Could not find kdemain: /usr/lib/kde3/kicker.so: undefined symbol: main
> So I removed the kwin, kdesktop and kicker directories and did the same again. 
> Now I could log in. 
> 
> Thinking all was now fixed I tried starting konsole. Same error - undefined 
> symbol main in /usr/lib/kde3/konsole.so. kfmclient gave me the same thing. So 
> I did a make distclean in kdebase and repeated the cvs up ... make install 
> routine. This didn't fix the problem. So I removed kdebase completely and 
> rechecked it out of cvs and built it. Now everything is back to normal.
> 
> What I don't understand is why only applications from kdebase were affected. 
> digikam worked fine. knotes worked fine. juk worked fine. kwalletmanager 
> worked fine. And this despite the fact that the build that started the issue 
> was a build of all the kde modules I'm using (which is most of them). I only 
> have one instance of kde on my system - the cvs version so it seems unlikely 
> that it was picking up old instances of other KDE libraries.
> 
> I suspect this is related to other people's problems with building kdelibs and 
> kdebase. Does anyone have a good explanation of why this happened?
> 
> Thanks
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Bye,
György

 
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