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Hello, i've recently compiled KDE 4.3 on my system. While i have no problem when i boot with the startx command (init level 3), i'm unable to boot using KDM (init level 4)

KDM for KDE 4.3 loads fine and when i give my credentials, the KDE splash screen appears, but then it blocks.
I have installed KDE 4.3 in the folder /opt/kde and set KDEDIRS variable to this path, yet it seems that kdeinit4 launches the old KDE 4.2 file /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so

Any clue on how to solve this problem would really be nice. Thanking you in advance.

David

This is what i found in my ~/.xsession-errors file:
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_klauncher.so
klauncher: This program is not supposed to be started manually.
klauncher: It is started automatically by kdeinit4.
kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
kdeinit4_wrapper: Warning: connect(/home/david/.kde/socket-darkstar/kdeinit4__0) failed: : Connection refused
could not access kephald, falling back to QDesktopWidget
adding an output 0 with geom: QRect(0,0 1440x900)
KWin: The default decoration plugin is corrupt and could not be loaded.
KWin will now exit...

I have solved my problem by editing the /etc/profile.d/kde.sh file, setting the KDEDIRS and PATH variables accordingly.

Thanks for your replies.

David