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Wednesday, March 5th 2003, 3:47am

couldn't start kdeinit

i'm having a strange problem regarding kdeinit.

basically, kde works. but when i log into kde (using startx, assuming i have set my default terminal through switchdesk to be kde), i get a white popup on the top left hand corner saying "couldn't start kdeinit. check your installation."

this error is always reproducible. i have gone to the point where i try running kdeinit on the console, and i get an error such as this:
DCOPServer up and running.
kded: cannot connect to X server localhost:0.0 [i've used 127.0.0.1, the regular ip, and everything imaginable]
DCOP aborting call from 'anopnymous-3443' to 'kded'
kdeinit: can't connect to x server
kdeinit: might not terminate at end of session

my display is correct. i can echo it and see either nothing or i can export DISPLAY=$HOSTNAME:0.0. regardless, nothing works.

strange thing is that when i run startkde (assuming that gnome is my default x term), i get even bigger errors:
xsetroot: unable to open display "localhost.0.0'
xrdb: can't open display 'localhost:0.0'
xset: unable to open display 'localhost:0.0'
....
kdeinit: communication error with launcher. exiting!
error: can't open display: localhost:0.0
warning: connect() failed: connection refused
error: can't contact kdeinit!

what could this be? i've been trying to fix it forever...

thanks for helping!

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Wednesday, March 5th 2003, 11:05pm

I'm having the same problem....

I'm having the same problem, this just started after I started having a problem with python. Not sure if its related, but I can get into KDE with Startx, I hope someone out there can help us!

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Wednesday, March 5th 2003, 11:06pm

I'm having the same problem....

I'm having the same problem, this just started after I started having a problem with python. Not sure if its related, but I can't get into KDE with Startx, I hope someone out there can help us!

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Thursday, March 6th 2003, 9:34pm

do people know the answer to this question? are there kde gurius around here?

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Saturday, March 8th 2003, 11:18pm

i've been working on this for months, and nobody seems to check this forum often enough to give an answer....

how do posts get stickied around here? can someone sticky this post? i think it's a valid request