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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 4 SVN for 22/11/08 fails to start
From:       Pramod Dematagoda <pmd.lotr.gandalf () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-11-23 2:44:38
Message-ID: 200811231343.34172.pmd.lotr.gandalf () gmail ! com
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On Saturday 22 November 2008 19:55:21 Mike Dransfield wrote:
> Pramod Dematagoda wrote:
> > Hey there, I've just compiled KDE 4 SVN for 22/11/08 and it had built
> > and installed properly, kdm also starts-up properly, however, when I try
> > to login via kdm, the screen blanks out for a few seconds and then 
drops
> > me back to kdm. I have looked in kdm.log, but it shows nothing,
> > and .xsession-errors contains nothing at all, in fact, it hasn't even
> > been created after I removed it to find out exactly what went wrong. I
> > also removed .kde4 to see if it would clear the problem, to no avail.
> >
> > This is on Gentoo 2008.0 with X 1.5.3. I am using the nv and evdev
> > drivers.
> >
> > P.S. I tried adding "export KDEHOME=~/.kde4" in the startkde script, 
but
> > it didn't fix it.
>
> I had the same problem, you can fix it by making sure that consolekit is
> installed
> and running. ie.
>
> # emerge sys-auth/consolekit
> # rc-update add consolekit default
>
> Regards
> Mike
>
> > Regards,
> > Pramod Dematagoda
> >
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Hi Mike,
I tried your suggestion and KDE 4 starts up successfully again, thanks! The 
weird thing is, it started without ConsoleKit a week back.

Regards,
Pramod Dematagoda

 
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