Where does KDE log to when it can't launch?

Beginner

Friday, June 4th 2004, 10:37am

Hi, can you help me?

I recently installed ZipSlack (a flavour of Slackware) on my machine. ZipSlack's a very cropped-back version of linux. It dosn't even ship with X or GCC.

I installed Fluxbox to check my X-server was set up right. Then once I was happy I spent the next two days pulling KDE down over 56k dial-up.

(I'm getting to the point now)

The only dependency problem I got was with the 2D-artwork library. Once I installed that, KDE made a pretty valiant effort at launching. It takes me to a blank X screen with a mouse-pointer. (not the X-pointer)

My problem is that KDE can't start however. IF I go CTRL+ALT+F1 then I can watch it's modules crash and burn one after the other. Each one states that there's a 'communication error' somewhere.

When I switch screen to watch the terminal complaints, I'm missing the first 'page' or so of it. I think there's probably a clue there as to how I can fix this.

So, does the above sound familiar to you? If so I could _realy_ use the advice.

Or, is the screen output from the crash logged anywhere so I can read it? Or can I cause it to be logged?

~ Archie.