[gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

[gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

[Paul Stear]

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.

Thanks for your time
Paul
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

[Brett Johnson]

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.

Hope this helps.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

[Paul Stear]

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


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

[Beso]

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2008/5/15 Brett Johnson <brett@blzj.com>:

> 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.
>
> Hope this helps.


kdelibs rebuild takes quite some time, so if you need i'll post my env
files:
 this is /etc/env.d/45kdepaths-3.5:

PATH=/usr/kde/3.5/bin
ROOTPATH=/usr/kde/3.5/sbin:/usr/kde/3.5/bin
LDPATH=/usr/kde/3.5/lib:/usr/kde/3.5/lib64:/usr/kde/3.5/lib32
MANPATH=/usr/kde/3.5/share/man
CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/env
/usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/config"
KDEDIRS="/usr:/usr/local:/usr/kde/3.5"
#KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1
XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/kde/3.5/share:/usr/local/share"
COLON_SEPARATED="XDG_DATA_DIRS"

and this is:

43kdepaths-kde-svn:

PATH="/usr/kde/svn/bin"
ROOTPATH="/usr/kde/svn/sbin:/usr/kde/svn/bin"
LDPATH="/usr/kde/svn/lib:/usr/kde/svn/lib64:/usr/kde/svn/lib32"
MANPATH="/usr/kde/svn/share/man"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/usr/kde/svn/share/config /usr/kde/svn/env
/usr/kde/svn/shutdown /usr/share/config"
KDEDIRS="/usr:/usr/local:/usr/kde/svn"
#KDE_IS_PRELINKED=1
XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/kde/svn/share:/usr/local/share"
COLON_SEPARATED="XDG_DATA_DIRS"

of course, if you're using the portage kde 4.0.x you'll need to modify svn
into 4.0. and manually verify the corectness of all the dirs.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

[Paul Stear]

On Thursday 15 May 2008, Beso wrote:
> 2008/5/15 Brett Johnson <brett@blzj.com>:
> > 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.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
>
> kdelibs rebuild takes quite some time, so if you need i'll post my env
> files:
<snip>
Thanks to Brett and Beso,
My 45kdeparts file was correct, I reinstalled kdelibs and now it all works 
correctly  ---  thanks.
I just wish I new how I got into this mess, I'm sure I didn't remove any 
kde stuff.  
Paul

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

[Brett Johnson]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:05:22PM +0100, Paul Stear wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008, Beso wrote:
> > 2008/5/15 Brett Johnson <brett@blzj.com>:
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> >
> > kdelibs rebuild takes quite some time, so if you need i'll post my env
> > files:
> <snip>
> Thanks to Brett and Beso,
> My 45kdeparts file was correct, I reinstalled kdelibs and now it all works 
> correctly  ---  thanks.
> I just wish I new how I got into this mess, I'm sure I didn't remove any 
> kde stuff.  

I suspect that the reason it did not work after you restored the
45kdepaths is because you would have needed to run env-update to merge
the changes in to your environment. By re-emerging kdelibs the build
replaced the 45kdepaths file and ran env-update for you.  Just a theory
though. I have no idea why the 45kdepaths would have been deleted in the
first place.

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