From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JwdRw-0000Eu-AL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 13:24:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E8EFDE05DD; Thu, 15 May 2008 13:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ptb-relay03.plus.net (ptb-relay03.plus.net [212.159.14.214]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BB6E0665 for ; Thu, 15 May 2008 13:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.159.109.207] (helo=[192.168.1.6]) by ptb-relay03.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1JwdQR-00018l-BJ for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 15 May 2008 14:23:15 +0100 From: Paul Stear Organization: appjaws To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 14:23:29 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200805151313.52140.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> <20080515122722.GU27626@blzj.com> In-Reply-To: <20080515122722.GU27626@blzj.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805151423.29973.gentoo@appjaws.plus.com> X-Plusnet-Relay: 6295b2ad2dd647dc48ccad0f9d7dcf25 X-Archives-Salt: 92a2017c-b904-4a7c-9f6e-e59049e2e17d X-Archives-Hash: 7069d6c6efb45dafc1410208e3d2b854 On Thursday 15 May 2008, Brett Johnson wrote: > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Paul Stear wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have screwed my system up after doing some deep cleans and > > eix-test-obsolete runs. It appears that the path tp kde is not found > > on boot. If I login to console and then issue startx as a user, kde > > starts. I only achieved this by putting the full path to startkde in > > my user .xinitrc. > > > > I am sure I am missing something stupid. > > Can some kind soul please tell me what I need to do to have kde start > > on boot. > > I don't use KDE, but it sounds like you are missing > /etc/env.d/??kdepaths-?.?. If that is the case, you may want to try and > reinstall kdelibs. On my system /etc/env.d/45kdepaths-3.5 belongs to > kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r3. The /etc/env.d/45kdepaths-3.5 file was missing only a back file in place. So I solved that and rebooted but the same problem. I am now reinstalling kdelibs -- hope that works. Thanks for your reply Paul -- This message has been sent using kmail with gentoo linux -- gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org mailing list