Re: Kdeinit fails to start; hangs KDE

[Hendrik Sattler <ubq7@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de>]

Am Montag, 20. Februar 2006 08:09 schrieb John O'Hagan:
> I'm using testing, upgraded regularly but still on KDE 3.3.2 because of
> dependency issues. As of yesterday, the KDE startup screen hangs,
> accompanied by a small box in the upper right corner saying (IIRC): "Could
> not launch kdeinit. Check your installation".
>
> Pressing OK on this box allows KDE to start normally except for the absence
> of the klaptop power monitor (and maybe other things I haven't found yet).
>
> An instance of kdeinit is actually running, owned by my normal user.
>
> Should there be another instance for root?
>
> Where should I look for the cause of this minor annoyance?

Either you downgrade libxft2 or you upgrade libfreetype6 to the version in 
unstable (despite the many grave bugs).

HS