Well, I found the cause. Actually, a friend came over and looked at it and he found the cause.
I had upgraded this system from RH 7.4 to RH 9.0. Apparently when you do that some old shared libraries were left that conflicted. I would have never in a million years found that. Anyway, he found it by manually issuing the "kdeinit" command and reading through the error messages (which don't appear when you start up from login). He deleted the conflicting libraries and KDE started up fine. doug On 8/10/03 5:20 PM, "Sean Estabrooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Doug, > >> >> It seems to be broken for all users. No clues, as far as I can see, in >> /var/log/messages. > > Hmmm. hard to know what it might be. You did try it with root as well? > That would rule out any permission problems. Also look in the users > directory for any files that start with .DCOPserver_ and remove them. > it's possible one of these lock files is inhibiting kdeinit. > > >> >> I downloaded KDE 3.1.3 to see if I could install that, but I am not sure >> what to do, to be honest. "rpm -I" each of the 30 packages? When I try that, >> though, I keep on getting "dependency" errors. >> >> > > If you have all the new rpms in a single directory typing: > > rpm -Fvh *.rpm > > will update all the rpms for which you have older versions already installed. > You will likely find that you have to upgrade many more rpms than just the > KDE core. > > > > Cheers, > Sean > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
