Bug#463305: kde4: Core Apps Crash Rendering Package Unusable)

2008-02-21 Thread David Baron
My daughter discovered this by accidentally starting a kde4 session with no a single crash at all!! 1. Must have a clean .kde4 on start! Even the one that I got by starting using sudo was not clean enough. Got rid of that. Viole. 2. Kicker and kdesktop will come up anyway, it seems (the old kde

Bug#463305: kde4: Core Apps Crash Rendering Package Unusable)

2008-02-10 Thread David Baron
Here is some more, possibly useful information: Postings on kubuntu's lists complained of problems with dbus without root permissions. Kubuntu/ubuntu's approach to this is sudo only so becomes more problematic. On my Debian system: 1. Dbusd IS running, started on init. (Note: There is no udev r

Bug#463305: kde4: Core Apps Crash Rendering Package Unusable)

2008-02-05 Thread David Baron
Here is some more, possibly useful information: Run from a failsafe session in an xterm, "sudo /usr/bin/startkde" will bring up successfully a KDE4 session, no crashes, everything (currently implemented) there! Run without root privileges, I get all the crashes. Apparently, run from a KDM logo

Bug#463305: kde4: Core Apps Crash Rendering Package Unusable

2008-01-30 Thread David Baron
Package: kde4 Version: 1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable Starting kde4, either from its /etc/init.d/kdm or from a failsafe session running /usr/bin/startkde brings up a blue background then a series of crashes: kcminit (from kdm) krunner (so no desktop) plasma (so no panels