Re: KDE Sudden Failure To Start

From: Kevin Nathan (knathan_at_project54.com)
Date: 07/24/03 

Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 22:59:57 -0600

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 23:31:38 -0400
Jim J <jazzmastaj@mindspring.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion, Graham, but that's not it, either. One
> person suggested that the permissions for ~/.Xauthority (or anything
> in the home directory) might be messed up (they're not), and another
> suggested basically wiping out (by moving) the ~/.kde directory --
> didn't work, either. :(
>
> This problem had a sudden onset (no new software has been installed,
> FYI), and has continued to get worse. SuSE Linux works fine in
> console (text) mode, but KDE just won't finish loading.
>

1. Are there any windows partitions being mounted auto in /etc/fstab?
If there are, try making them noauto see if that helps. I had a DOS
partition screw me up a few years ago until I reformatted it; never
did find out just *what* it was that caused it, but not mounting it
helped until the reformat.

2. Log in to runlevel 3, switch to the second console, run "top"; then
switch back to the first console and log in as normal. Run startx (or
however you get into runlevel 5) and then immediately switch back to
that second console and see if anything is hogging the cpu.

3. Any differences running GNOME or icewm or WindowMaker, etc.?

4. re: moving the .kde directory -- do you also have a .kde1 and/or
.kde2, etc., directories? Tried moving the .kderc file? Tried deleting
the .DCOP* file in home dir?

5. Do you have enough swap space? (cat /proc/swaps) Is swap on a
different hard disk and is that hard disk running ok and cables
snug?

6. Is the appropriate XF86Config file ok?

Can't think of anything else to check at the moment. I had a similar
problem in 7.3 and KDE 2.2.1 -- after several months my swap started
filling up and load went in excess of 5. No idea why, but switched to
icewm at that point and had no problems. Next time I upgraded KDE,
the problem went away. That's not any real help, I know, but I *do*
know how you feel! :-) 

-- 
Kevin Nathan (Montana, USA)
Open standards. Open source. Open minds.
The command line is the front line.
Linux 2.4.10-4GB
 10:40pm  up 2 days, 22:44,  6 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.02

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