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Hello everyone,

This issue that I am having is very annoying and I have figured out this much that it has something to do with X server, particularly its xdm command.

My problem is that when I login and kde starts up, which it should, but the problem is its kdestop fails to start. I don't get any icons, nothing. And when I use gnome and at gnome terminal I type startkde, it starts producing lots of errors like the following:

QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used
Session management error: Could not open network socket
*** kdesktop (8260) got signal 11

The "kdesktop got signall error" keeps coming and it does not stop. I know it has something to do with xdm because I executed this command before I logged out last night and this problem starts occuring this morning when I tried to login.

Does anyone have a clue what is really going on and what can be done to fix it?

Please help me ... I am going crazy over this. :x
Regards,
Khurram

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Original von Amoeba

Well, there's a couple of things you might want to check over. This may be redundant, but what troubleshooting isn't?

Anyways, check the file /etc/rc.conf for the following:
[code:1]DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
XSESSION="KDE-3.3.0"
[/code:1]
DISPLAYMANAGER should be "kdm" while XSESSION should be, well, anything you name the session. XDM looks in /etc/X11/Sessions for available WM/DMs. Make sure you have a session for all of your WM/DMs. For KDE, create (if one does not already exist) a file, preferably kde-<version of kde> and inside, the only line should be:
[code:1]#!/bin/sh
/usr/kde/<version of kde>/bin/startkde
[/code:1]

I really doubt this is an X issue if you can boot into Gnome. Can you boot into KDE if you use GDM? Do you even have GDM installed?

NOTE: GDM does not look in /etc/X11/Sessions. It looks somewhere else.

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Thank you for your reply Amoeba,

Finally somebody replied. ... Anyway, the thing is that there is no such file "/etc/rc.conf" on my system. I looked not only in etc but also in every directory residing inside X11 directory.

And about GDM, it is installed on my system since I have to login to the system using username and password. Currently I am logged into Gnome. And KDE does boot up if I want it to.. but the desktop does not show up plus I also keep getting messages like kicker crashed or panel crashed .. So I don't really have a clue what exactly is happening. But I do have a feeling that it is an xdm issue since I foolishly executed before logging out just to see what it did and how X would behave. And now I am screwed becuase of that ...

And you do have a valid point that if I can boot into Gnome then this can't be it. But then what is it?

I look forward to your reply. Thanx for your help.
Khurram

Well ..Amoeba you were right .. it was not an xdm issue. I jut got it working again ... what happened was the same day when I executed xdm command .. a while little earlier I put a new path to qt libraries in ld.so.conf file because sometimes when I install new programs, configure does not find new qt libraries. So I thought this might work. And it did work but it screwed up KDE somehow and I still dont' understand why the latest qt libraries would not work with KDE and I kept thinking it was the xdm command somehow screwed up KDE.

Anyway .. it is resolved and thank you for your help.