From kde-devel  Tue Oct 31 23:59:56 2000
From: Maniac <Maniac () Alltel ! net>
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:59:56 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Bug#14276: KDE 2.0 startup - Redhat 6.2 Linux
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=97303707602247

On Tuesday 31 October 2000 05:28 pm, John R Shannon wrote:
> I'm having a problem getting KDE to start. I get the new KDE 2.0 login
> panel, but once I login I'm running KDE1.1.2.
>
> The file .xsession-errors contains:
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: [: too many arguments
> maudio: Cannot open audio device.
> kpanel: waiting for windowmanager
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> kpanel: ok, commencing initialization
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> PID could not get read.
> kwmsound: Failed connecting the audio server.
> Please check manually if you can start kaudioserver.
>
> This is a Redhat 6.2 Linux system. I built KDE 2.0 from the source tarballs
> in /opt/kde. I changed /usr/bin/kdm to be a link to /opt/kde/bin/kdm.
>
> Following the FAQ, I defined .Xclient (and .xinitrc); they were not
> previously defined.
>
> What am I missing?
what is your path set to? make sure your KDE2DIR is set before your KDE1DIR 
In your case I think it should be PATH=/opt/kde2/bin:$PATH
HTH but remember YMMV )
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