Re: [kde-linux] Starting up KDE hangs with a black desktop and movable mouse cursor.

[Kevin Krammer <kevin.krammer@xxxxxx>]

On Thursday 22 November 2007, david wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > On Wednesday 21 November 2007, david wrote:
> >>> Perhaps reinstalling the KSMServer would fix the connection between KDE
> >>> and X? I'll try that now and let you know what happens.
> >>
> >> Didn't help. Attempts to start KDE from the command line still report
> >> being unable to start kdeinit. I can't find kdeinit listed as a separate
> >> package, so I don't know if simply reinstalling kdeinit would fix
> >> things.
> >>
> >> Looks like reinstalling system fresh is the only option.
> >
> > Check the solutions proposed here_
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=452053
>
> Thanks, Kevin, but no cheers for me yet.

Hmm. Did you try with a new user account?

> I didn't see any solutions proposed there that I haven't already tried.
> ksmserver was already at the 3.5.8.+whatever level. Where would I find
> the .xsession-errors log? I didn't see it anywhere in /var/log. I've

It is in you home directory, i.e. $HOME/.xsession-errors

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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