Re: KDE 4.3.4 cannot start

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Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> James Tyrer wrote:
>> Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
>>   
>>> James Tyrer wrote:
>>>     
>>>> I have these packages installed:
>>>>
>>>> DBus
>>>> DBus-Glib
>>>> HAL
>>>> HAL-Info
>>>> PolicyKit
>>>> EggDBus
>>>> polkit
>>>> ConsoleKit
>>>>
>>>> I don't really know if they are all really dependencies for KDE, but 
>>>> they are what is normally installed on a system using D-Bus/HAL/PolicyKit.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> All are installed here too.
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>>> If you installed KDE-4 in a directory other than "/usr" or "/usr/local" 
>>>> you need to add the directory to the list in:
>>>>
>>>> /etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> The KDE is installed in /usr.
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>>> The other suggestion for debugging would be to start X with only an X 
>>>> terminal and then execute:
>>>>
>>>> 	echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
>>>>
>>>> If you don't get an answer, then:
>>>>
>>>> 	eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
>>>>
>>>> and check it:
>>>>
>>>> 	echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
>>>>
>>>> With D-Bus up and running, execute:
>>>>
>>>> 	<full_path>/startkde >kde.log 2>&1
>>>>
>>>> This should give you a shorter log with only KDE issues.
>>>>
>>>> There are also tools for D-Bus: dbus-*.  Read the man pages
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>> Here is what I did:
>>>
>>> 1. cat > .xinitrc << "EOF"
>>> # Begin .xinitrc file
>>> xterm -g 80x40+0+0 &
>>> xclock -g 100x100-0+0 &
>>> twm
>>> EOF
>>>
>>> 2. startx
>>>
>>> 3. On xterm:
>>> No $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS yet
>>> eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session`
>>>
>>> echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
>>> unix:path=/var/tmp/dbus-XdU7IrFpIn,guid=4ea14ef09629ea18bde8fbb64b4d4b09
>>>
>>> 4. On xterm:
>>> /usr/bin/startkde >kde.log 2>&1
>>>
>>> xmessage pop up:
>>> Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?
>>>
>>> Here is the kde.log:
>>>
>>> kdostartupconfig4(7634) main: Running kdostartupconfig.
>>> kdostartupconfig4(7634) main: 
>>> "/usr/home/testuser/.kde4/share/config/startupconfigkeys"
>>> kdostartupconfig4(7634) KLocalePrivate::initEncoding: Cannot resolve 
>>> system encoding, defaulting to ISO 8859-1.
>>> xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are:
>>> Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
>>> Directory missing fonts.dir
>>> Incorrect font server address or syntax
>>> Link points to "/tmp/testuser-kde4/kde-testuser"
>>> Link points to "/var/tmp/testuser-kde4/kdecache-testuser"
>>> Link points to "/tmp/testuser-kde4/ksocket-testuser"
>>> startkde: Starting up...
>>> startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?
>>>
>>>     
>> Check for qdbus, if you haven't already.
>>
>> If you have "which" installed, execute:
>>
>> 	which qdbus
>>
>> If it doesn't find it, this would meand that the Qt-4 'bin' directory
>> isn't on your PATH.
>>
>>   
> This qdbus error is due to some reason the dbus session bus started by 
> .xinitrc die before run the qdbus in /usr/bin/startkde.
> 
> Leaving startkde to launch the dbus session bus works but the 
> plasma-desktop still crashes as before.
> 
> Note, this time I have a new dbus related message:
> plasma-desktop(1229) getComponent: Failed to connect to the kglobalaccel 
> daemon QDBusError("org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NameHasNoOwner", "Could 
> not get owner of name 'org.kde.kglobalaccel': no such name")
> 
> The dbus session started by the startkde remains even after the 
> plasma-desktop is crashed.
> 
Well, it seems that you are correct that it is a D-Bus problem.  I have 
to say that I am not a D-Bus expert and that is what you need.

-- 
James Tyrer

Linux (mostly) From Scratch
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