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Hi everyone, I just finished compiling KDE 4.11 onto my CRUX desktop. I am running kernel version 3.6.11 (upgrading to 3.11.8 soon) and have Qt 4.8.5 installed aswell. To start X, I just type startx in my shell, and then the .xinitrc script runs startkde and thats about it. What I see visually is the KDE bootup splash screen, and then it freezes (with all icons appearing, KDE, hard drive, etc) for about 30 or so seconds, and then I finally get to the Plasma Desktop. However, as soon as I click something that responds, such as the KDE menu, the whole desktop freezes except for my cursor, here is the output of startkde:
I saw a lot of issues with dbus, upower, and udisks specifically, but besides that, I'm not experienced enough to know what the root problem is here, all I'm seeing is error messages. I do have a pretty full installation of KDE. I have akonadi, nepomuk, almost all of the default programs too, so, I don't think I am missing anything, but again, I just think that, I have no idea if its true or not. Could anyone give me some assistance with this? Thanks. |
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Is this system self-compiled? If it is, you need to recompile Qt with MySQL support available, as the lack of it is causing Akonadi to fail to start.
Unfortunately the rest of that output is pretty much routine - can you run "kdebugdialog" and enable all debug areas, then logout and back in again - and repost the .xsession-errors log file?
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Yep, this is a self-compiled system. Here is the output of kdebugdialog. I did kill the X server after a minute or so, nothing was happening at all.
EDIT: Have to put it into pastebin, I guess this post is too long so the forum isn't showing it? http://pastebin.com/HnCH09HT I couldn't find an .xsession-errors file in my home directory. I am recompiling Qt aswell. |
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Added support for SQL by appending "-qt-sql-mysql" to the configuration script, still no difference in errors or KDE itself. I noticed that I can, in a way, use KDE if I don't use the taskbar at all. I just run krunner and I access all of my programs/data from there. It's not ideal and is a temporary fix, but KDE runs flawlessly. No lag, crashes, nothing. It seems to be when I click on the menu that it crashes, atleast, thats the only issue I've seen so far.
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I GOT IT!
It was dbus!!!!!, I have no idea, but it was. I found an error in a log I created from startx:
XD, all I did was restart the dbus daemon, and KDE works like a charm. I'll admit, I don't know why that did it, but hey, I got a working compiled installation of KDE! On to some more problems to solve... Also, I realize that my solution probably has nothing to do with that code snippet, but, uh, it works. Aaaaand theres my solution. |
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Okay, good to see you got it solved. In this case, it was simply Plasma Desktop which had failed to start - everything else had started up successfully, hence why you were able to launch and use applications using KRunner.
That D-Bus message is quite relevant, as KDE depends on a number of system services (including UPower) which are only reachable via the system D-Bus server.
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