[arch-general] KDE stoped working

[Nicolas Bigaouette]

The problem I had was because of me.

The KMS boot option needs 3 modules to be built in the initrd. My fault was
creating a copy of /etc/mkinitcpio.conf to /etc/mkinitcpio-kms.conf, which
creates /boot/kernel26-kms.img. Since this is useless (one can build the
three modules in the stock kernel26.img and choose KMS using i915.modeset=1
or i915.modeset=0)
So I changed all my machines to that setup, except my workstation which used
the old kernel26-kms.img. So reinstalling the (arch) kernel did not fixed
it: I needed to rebuild kernel26-kms.img

Probably KDE was crashing because of its desktop effects...

I'll see for the bug report. Even with this, KDE is a great desktop IMO.

2009/5/29 David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. <drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com>

> On or about Wednesday 27 May 2009 at approximately 15:08:51 Nicolas
> Bigaouette
> composed:
> > Did that too, without success...
> >
> > 2009/5/27 Andrea Scarpino <andrea at archlinux.org>
> >
> > > On 27/05/2009, Nicolas Bigaouette <nbigaouette at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > So the problem is not that it is failing to load i810 or vesa, the
> > > > server just tries to load them but they are not used.
> > >
> > > Yes, I am stupid -.-' you said KDM works, so X works.
> > >
> > > try to move ~/.kde4 dir to somewhere and start kde
> > >
> > > --
> > > Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino
> > > Arch Linux Developer
>
>         Threads like this do not build my confidence for making the jump
> from kde3 to
> kde4. Imagine, one crash or weird boot up and you get 5 hours of dorking
> with "why won't my kde4 start."
>
>        Nicolas, I've save a few threads on this from the other list, I'll
> pick
> through them and if I get anything other than the normal move .kde4 and
> force
> a rebuild of the config, I'll post it here. Good luck, and remember -- File
> the bug report....
>
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