[arch-general] KDE stoped working

[Juan Diego]

I used to have the same problem, what I did is this:

1. reinstall kde:

pacman -S kde

2. recreate the kms initcpio in my case (your case could be different):

mkinitcpio -p kernel26-kms

3. install xf86-video-intel-newest from aur

Im not sure which step was the one that actually fix it, but now Im
running kde fine

I hope it works for you too

Good luck

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 7:35 AM, Nicolas Bigaouette
<nbigaouette at gmail.com> wrote:
> I tried putting "xterm" only in my .xinitrc.
>
> Once xterm is launched (without window management..., but otherwise works
> fine), if I launch manually /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher it tells me I
> should not run that manually, that it is started automatically by kdeinit4.
>
> If I then try /usr/bin/kded4, I get the same error as reported earlier:
>
>> kded(7702): Communication problem with  "kded" , it probably crashed.
>> Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did
>> not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
>>
>
> Running "startkde" from the xterm I get:
>
>> startkde: Starting up...
>> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher
>> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4
>> kded(10731): Communication problem with  "kded" , it probably crashed.
>> Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did
>> not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
>>
>> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kcminit_startup
>> kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/ksmserver
>> startkde: Shutting down...
>> klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
>> startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
>> startkde: Done.
>>
>
> Why can't kded4 connect to my dbus??
>
>
> 2009/5/27 Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan at gmail.com>
>
>> > startkde: Starting up...
>> > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/klauncher
>> > kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kded4
>> > kded(7702): Communication problem with  "kded" , it probably crashed.
>> > Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did
>> > not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
>>
>> this suggests kded didn't run ..  maybe try to start it manually and
>> see where it breaks .. or even better start with xterm only and run
>> each kde component one by one.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> damjan
>>
>