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wokman

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Thursday, February 26th 2004, 5:46am

KDE crash?

Greetings everybody.

I was reading around the net about the problems starting up KDE, unfortunately, I must add to that statistic.

i'm using LFS 5.0 and I have compiled KDE 3.2 five times. I always seem to hang just before the splash screen. The latest attempt I got a cool intro chime from KDE but still a nice clean bright grey screen and that's all. Using CTRL-ALT-Backspace I get something about a kicker and DCOP. I've cleaned out the /tmp directory and /user directory of the hidden dirs so many times too.

I've used Konstruct and I have compiled using the CVS of the BLFS book. I can't begin to explain the fustration so far. Any insight is appreciated.

Oh yeah, I forgot to mention. I am also using Qt 3.3.0.

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Thursday, February 26th 2004, 7:12am

try starting kde from a command line and see when it hangs. it might tell you what process is hanging and if there is any error?

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Saturday, February 28th 2004, 7:06am

maybe it is QT?

Hello everyone,

Thank you for the suggestions. It did not reveal much other than kdeinit cannot communicate with the X-server and some wierd precision output.

I was just wondering, could it be my QT library was compiled incorrectly? I compiled KDE 3.1.4 against my QT 3.2.1 and no problems. I change the symlink to the new QT (3.3.0) it dies. Am I safe in assuming that because QT 3.3.0 is "binary" compatible so that KDE 3.1.4 should have worked?

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Saturday, February 28th 2004, 9:44am

I think qt 3.3 is not recommended even for kde 3.2. So there might be problems running kde 3.1.4 with qt 3.3.

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Saturday, February 28th 2004, 7:37pm

Ah ha! The solution presents itself.

As was suspected earlier, it was QT 3.3.0 giving all the problems. I compiled a fresh new QT 3.2.3 and voila! It worked... Well actually, I had to recompile KDE 3.2.0 from sources again but it was well worth it. :wink:

So, the moral of the story... DON'T USE QT 3.3.0 just yet.

Thanks campusloop for all your help.

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