Joyce Cheng <joycechenghm@xxxxxxxxxxx> posted BLU0-SMTP738FE8FE6F73C9F3EB52CFD7130@xxxxxxx, excerpted below, on Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:51:23 +1000: > After building my very own LFS system and installing an Xorg server, I > decided to install KDE. > So I did. Following the instructions on techbase, I compiled the > prerequisite and the basic KDE packages -- kdelibs, kdepimlibs, kdebase, > kdebase-runtime and kdebase-workspace. I set xinitrc to contain > "dbus-launch startkde" and attempted to start it with startx. Everything > was fine and it ran until the initial icons. But then the screen would > turn blank and crash. After logging the output from startx, I figured > that it somehow entered into an infinitive loop, but other than that, I > have absolutely no idea what went wrong. Hi. There's a regular here (James Tyrer) that has in his sig "Linux (mostly) From Scratch". So you may well be in luck. =:^) He should reply when he sees the thread, I hope. Meanwhile, I run Gentoo, so compile from source, but with a bit more scripted help and automated dependencies, as compared to LFS. It could be that you are missing a run-time dependency, and that's where I'll start trying to help if he can't, but given his sig, he's likely to be of far more direct help than I can be, so I'll let him take a swing at it first, and step back in if there's something I think I can add. But if he for some reason doesn't reply for a few days, post a reminder "bump", which I'll see and can try my hand at it. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.