[arch-general] KDE stoped working

[Nicolas Bigaouette]

Thanx for the suggestion.

That did fixed it. The problem was with the initrd, which needed to be
rebuilt!

Thanx a lot ;)


2009/5/28 Juan Diego <juantascon at gmail.com>

> 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
> >>
> >
>