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 1Rie4W-00071T-AR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2012 03:32:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8F6CB21C178; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 03:32:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail12.tpgi.com.au (mail12.tpgi.com.au [203.12.160.162]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7996E21C125 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 03:26:38 +0000 (UTC) X-TPG-Junk-Checked: Yes X-TPG-Junk-Status: Message not scanned because user authenticated using SMTP AUTH X-TPG-Antivirus: Passed X-TPG-Abuse: host=27-33-235-192.static.tpgi.com.au; ip=27.33.235.192; date=Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:26:36 +1100; auth=uvyrE+o6fAwqkkuYeCaT6kEOJM7fAGbLpPpVerb0wHQ= Received: from [192.168.14.3] (27-33-235-192.static.tpgi.com.au [27.33.235.192]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail12.tpgi.com.au (envelope-from agl@wht.com.au) (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q053QXID011511 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2012 14:26:36 +1100 Message-ID: <4F051869.5030309@wht.com.au> Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:26:33 +0800 From: Andrew Lowe Organization: Wombat High Tech User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111230 Thunderbird/8.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE won't start up.... References: <4F0486B5.8030509@wht.com.au> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7021903e-40c8-4f2e-b082-382d2b6e934c X-Archives-Hash: 4eda0dbe419f60e3151d9d8c54e9220e On 01/05/12 02:51, walt wrote: > On 01/04/2012 09:04 AM, Andrew Lowe wrote: >> I can start up bog standard X via "startx" and the mouse and keyboard >> work but I can't get KDE to start. > > Does startx give you the twm session with some xterms and an xclock? > If so, try running 'startkde' from an xterm. (Or whatever may have > replaced startkde since I looked last.) > > Running revdep-rebuild is a good idea after every update, too. > > > revdep-rebuild is your friend!!!! I can remember kicking off the original emerge that caused my problem and thinking "I also need to remember to run revdep-rebuild when done" and then promptly forgot to do so. Thanks to walt's prompt, I've run it and things are now good. Also thanks to the others for kicking in with suggestions, Andrew