Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4.2 compile problem

[Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Dirk Uys <dirkcuys@gmail.com> wrote:
> After some more struggling I managed to get kde-base/systemsettings
> compiled: If I unmerge x11-libs/libxkbfile and then emerge
> systemsettings, it compiles fine (without support for the xkb
> settings). After that I did an emerge -DuvaN world and this pulls in
> libxkbfile again.
>
> But when I try to start KDE4.2 (using kdm), the screen blanks out a
> few times while kde is loading (the spash screen being displayed) and
> then I briefly see a malformed desktop (the bottom of the taskbar
> wraps around to the top of the screen) and then just a black screen.
>
> In /var/log/messages, something about plasma crashing is reported,
> can't remember and I'm not at the PC now, but nothing very
> informative.
>
> I feel like going back to my good old days of windowmaker.
>
> Regards
> Dirk
>

I found bug #256827, upgraded gcc, and everything is fine and well again!

Regards
Dirk