From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Rh1HF-0001jm-Qj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:55:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 99BDF21C0C9; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:54:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com (oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com [67.222.55.9]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A76BF21C09A for ; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21480 invoked by uid 0); 31 Dec 2011 15:53:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO box347.bluehost.com) (69.89.31.147) by oproxy7.bluehost.com with SMTP; 31 Dec 2011 15:53:01 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lotussevencars.com; s=default; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Mime-Version:Message-ID:Date:Content-Type:To:Reply-To:From:Subject; bh=YwFoPFBhzeofFjgOkp9/PaMjCf6zatH91kTbyW2w0xw=; b=itfgKEX6K3a9eJpO77vjwMuz8IBrKw2g50gBVIsKeSZVKpxTwBpmjG5kNSclSXSPzQ998icqPaBf5dzbWp5/Y7X962YqTdA80LktTHt3WGSbN9WFHiw8bVTCzCyg5ZhS; Received: from adsl-68-221-17-105.rmo.bellsouth.net ([68.221.17.105] helo=[192.168.2.100]) by box347.bluehost.com with esmtpsa (SSLv3:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1Rh1Ey-0001Fx-I4 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 31 Dec 2011 08:53:00 -0700 Subject: [gentoo-user] Problems starting KDE From: Jeff Cranmer To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 10:53:25 -0500 Message-ID: <1325346805.15973.36.camel@laptop.limeyworld> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.1.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {793:box347.bluehost.com:lotussev:lotussevencars.com} {sentby:smtp auth 68.221.17.105 authed with jeff@lotussevencars.com} X-Archives-Salt: ec29b8f1-704a-408d-bbaf-0fada2e252a3 X-Archives-Hash: 72088ab2076b3d87a7f1c0a25475d2af I'm attempting to bring up a new system. Processor is AMD Phenom 1055, running on a Sabertooth 990FX motherboard. Graphics card is an NVIDIA GEForce GTX550Ti. If I start X with twm, the xserver connection is made, and TWM comes up correctly with three Xterm windows. I note that I get two errors reported, (EE) NVIDIA: Failed to load module "dri2" (Module does not exist, 0) /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc: line 62: xclock: command not found The first error is definitely on startup, but the latter could have appeared on exit. I have a file 20-nvidia.conf in the /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d directory with the following information Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BoardName "GeForce GTX550 Ti" BusID "PCI:5:0:0" Screen 0 EndSection Section "Module" Disable "dri" Disable "dri2" Load "glx" EndSection If I add exec startkde to the top of the /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc file, then startx fails to start. I get the same dri2 error as above, but also get startkde: Starting up... Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString) kded(13865): Communication Problem with "kded", it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " I verified using /etc/init.d/dbus status that the dbus service is running. Same for consolekit. /var/log/kdm.log shows one error, repeated for each startup attempt. KCrash: Appication 'kdmgreet' crashing.... KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/drkonqi directly Server Terminated successfully (0). Closing log file. Any assistance gratefully received. Thanks Jeff