Re: Kdeinit fails to start; hangs KDE

[John O'Hagan <johnohagan@iprimus.com.au>]

On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:16 pm, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> 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".

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

Thank you Florian and Hendrik,

I now understand the issue; I think I will live with it for a while and see if 
it is solved by the Debian team as I am reluctant to mix distributions; 
otherwise I will take your advice.

Thanks again

John