Bug#452053: kdelibs4c2a: startkde (as started from startx) fails with blank screen; kdm works.
Package: kdelibs4c2a
Version: 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-3
Severity: important
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.2-BIOSTAR-2007-08-10-a (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kdelibs4c2a depends on:
ii kdelibs-data 4:3.5.8.dfsg.1-3 core shared data for all KDE appli
ii libacl1 2.2.45-1 Access control list shared library
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.19-3 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libarts1c2a 1.5.8-1 aRts sound system core components
ii libasound2 1.0.15-1 ALSA library
ii libaspell15 0.60.5-1 GNU Aspell spell-checker runtime l
ii libattr1 1:2.4.39-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libaudio2 1.9-3 Network Audio System - shared libr
ii libavahi-client3 0.6.21-2 Avahi client library
ii libavahi-common3 0.6.21-2 Avahi common library
ii libavahi-qt3-1 0.6.21-2 Avahi Qt 3 integration library
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.3-7 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.6.1-1+b1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcomerr2 1.40.2-1 common error description library
ii libcupsys2 1.3.2-1+lenny1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libfam0 2.7.0-13 Client library to control the FAM
ii libfontconfig1 2.4.2-1.2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.3.5-1+b1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.2-3 GCC support library
ii libgnutls13 2.0.1-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii libice6 2:1.0.4-1 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libidn11 1.1-1 GNU libidn library, implementation
ii libjasper1 1.900.1-3 The JasPer JPEG-2000 runtime libra
ii libjpeg62 6b-14 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libkrb53 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-2 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii liblua50 5.0.3-3 Main interpreter library for the L
ii liblualib50 5.0.3-3 Extension library for the Lua 5.0
ii libopenexr2ldbl 1.2.2-4.4 runtime files for the OpenEXR imag
ii libpcre3 6.7+7.4-2+lenny1 Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii libpng12-0 1.2.15~beta5-3 PNG library - runtime
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.7-9 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsm6 2:1.0.3-1+b1 X11 Session Management library
ii libstdc++6 4.2.2-3 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libtiff4 3.8.2-7 Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxext6 1:1.0.3-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxft2 2.1.12-2 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxi6 2:1.1.3-1 X11 Input extension library
ii libxinerama1 1:1.0.2-1 X11 Xinerama extension library
ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrandr2 2:1.2.2-1 X11 RandR extension library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.22-1 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii menu-xdg 0.3 freedesktop.org menu compliant win
ii perl 5.8.8-12 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii xbase-clients 1:7.2.ds2-2 miscellaneous X clients
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-6 compression library - runtime
kdelibs4c2a recommends no packages.
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This bug may be #446970 "kdeinit not found", but I don't see how the suggestion given there (make sure that ksmserver is update to 3.5.8) can help, since 3.5.8 is not in testing.
I normally start a KDE desktop session from the console, using startx. After a recent update startx only flashes the nVidia logo, shows the "x" cursor, then goes blank.
However, starting a desktop session through kdm brings up the login prompt and KDE desktop successfully.
My .xsession-errors file shows the following after a failed startx attempt:
Xsession: X session started for root at Thu Nov 15 22:10:41 EST 2007
startkde: Starting up...
Hangup
GOT SIGHUP
startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.
Error: Can't open display: :0
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
And the shutdown of a (successful) kdm session writes the following to .xsession-errors (process 2302 is 'kded [kdeinit] --new-startup'):
startkde: Shutting down...
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
process 2302: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, asser$
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
process 2302: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, asser$
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.
As mentioned, this seems similar to #446970, but I'm confused about the suggestion to update ksmserver to 3.5.8, since the current version in testing is 3.5.7.dfsg.1-1. /usr/bin/start_kdeinit_wrapper does exist. Lines 347-354 of startkde look like this:
# We set LD_BIND_NOW to increase the efficiency of kdeinit.
# kdeinit unsets this variable before loading applications.
LD_BIND_NOW=true start_kdeinit --new-startup +kcminit_startup
if test $? -ne 0; then
# Startup error
echo 'startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.' 1>&2
xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation."
fi
Thank you for your attention.
Peter Yellman
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