[sclug] HELP X Mandrake 9.1

Scott Rixon scott at green-flag.com
Sat Oct 25 09:05:42 UTC 2003


There gone! What happened!

Looks like I need to try and install KDE again! Trouble is there are a
lot of RPM's to install!!

Machine was in KDE when it died but I didn't expect this much damage. It
did run a fsck on restart and corrected a couple of errors.

Oh well!

Scott

On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 22:22, lug at assursys.co.uk wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Scott Rixon wrote:
> 
> > Me again!!
> > 
> > I tried just running KDE and this is what I got..
> > 
> > startkde: Starting up...
> > /usr/bin/startkde: line 204: ksplash: command not found
> > /usr/bin/startkde: line 210: kdeinit: command not found
> > startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.
> > /usr/bin/startkde: line 214: xmessage: command not found
> > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
> > Error: Can't run ksmserver !
> > startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.
> > /usr/bin/startkde: line 231: xmessage: command not found
> > startkde: Shutting down...
> > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
> > Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
> > startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
> > startkde: Done.
> > 
> > Problem? I think so..
> 
> Do the missing binaries (ksplash, kdeinit, xmessage, ksmserver) exist on
> your system? Have you tried using rpm to verify the KDE packages?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Alex.




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