[olug] Now what...

[Steve Busby]

On Sunday 05 October 2003 12:23 pm, Tom wrote:
> Thanks Steve.  The system has been running for about 7 days since last
> reboot.
>
> I did the startx and got the following errors:
> Couldn't start KDEINIT
> Couldn't start KSMSERVER
> Check your installation.
>
> I am (was) running KDE and the version shows as: testing/unstable
>
> The log file is huge and I am not real sure what I am looking for.  I can
> make it available, if I can figure out how to send email without the kde
> desktop.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Tom

Thanks for the update.  Probably can get this working without the log file, 
but I was hoping you'd look through it and see why startx/KDE was dying.  

Look in your /etc/X11 subdirectory and see if you have any XF86Config-4.old or 
XF86Config.old.  You should look at the creation dates/times and see if they 
coincide with when you were making changes, if so the first thing I'd do is 
copy one of these (depends on what your distro uses) to XF86Config or 
XF86Config-4 (respectively).  Then try startx or startkde and see what 
happens.

Depending on your distro another option would be to recreate your XF86Config 
or XF86Config-4.   For Mandrake/KDE try "XFdrake", RedHat/KDE try 
"redhat-config-xfree86 ", and Gentoo/KDE go with " ", hrmmm, does anybody use 
xwindows with Gentoo?   :-)  Hehehe just kidding, I use KDE with Gentoo, but 
I can't remember what the command to configure startx was/is, /etc/X11/X 
maybe?

Standard disclaimers apply oh and YMMV.

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