I have an IBM a31p laptop on which I am trying to install Debian 3.0 (aka woody). ALL packages are official, stock Debian 3.0 r0 packages. I have X configured and working (using the VESA xfree86 driver, as 4.1 does not have a native driver for the video card).
My next step in setting up Debian on this machine is to get KDE installed and working (woody's stock KDE only! -- testing/unstable packages need not apply). Everything falls apart at this point. :-( KDE crashes in the middle of it's startup cycle. It doesn't matter how I try to start it; it always crashes at the same point (just as ksplash moves to "Initializing Peripherals"). I've tried starting KDE via KDM, startx, even from a failsafe X session. It always crashes. I've tracked the problem down to kcminit from the following line in /usr/bin/kde2: LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify I can't find any logs anywhere as to why kcminit is dieing. Does anyone have any ideas? Please CC me, as I am not subscribed to the list. Thanks, Garrick James