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rambot

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Thursday, January 29th 2004, 11:09pm

KDE 3.1 will not start

Hello

I have been running SuSE 8.2 Linux with KDE 3.1 (with various patches
from SuSE) with no problems for six months. However, yesterday when I
logged in to KDE, instead of showing the row of icons as it starts the
desktop, an error message came up saying "KDE seems already running on
this display" (exactly that), with a button underneath saying "Okay".
On clicking this, it took me back to the login screen.

I can log into other Window managers OK (I don't have Gnome
installed), it just seems to be a problem with KDE.

I am running an 1.4GHZ AMD Athlon with 512MB.

If you need any more information, please tell me what and I will post
it.

Thanks in advance,

Jon

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Friday, January 30th 2004, 1:05am

I am not a suse user and also more of a startx kind of guy (no kdm login screen), but let me suggest something. Try Deleting all kde related files from /tmp and then login again. Perhaps your previous kde session crashed or something? temporary files were left behind in /tmp? As far as I know the "startkde" script should take care of it, but give it a try.

If you are sure that there are no useful files in /tmp, do a "\rm -rf kde*" in /tmp (make sure you are in /tmp!!!!!!!!! and safer if you are not root). :) Also check your ~/.kde or ~/.kde3, whatever.

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Saturday, February 21st 2004, 2:34pm

KDE won't start

Hello

Thanks for the help, but I finally managed to get into KDE by disabling services and Yast fixed all the problems by removing some of my recent changes.