Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE will not start on boot

[Brett Johnson]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 03:05:22PM +0100, Paul Stear wrote:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008, Beso wrote:
> > 2008/5/15 Brett Johnson <brett@××××.com>:
> > > On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 01:13:52PM +0100, Paul Stear wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I have screwed my system up after doing some deep cleans and
> > > > eix-test-obsolete runs.  It appears that the path tp kde is not
> > > > found on boot.  If I login to console and then issue startx as a
> > > > user, kde starts. I only achieved this by putting the full path to
> > > > startkde in my user .xinitrc.
> > > >
> > > > I am sure I am missing something stupid.
> > > > Can some kind soul please tell me what I need to do to have kde
> > > > start on boot.
> > >
> > > I don't use KDE, but it sounds like you are missing
> > > /etc/env.d/??kdepaths-?.?. If that is the case, you may want to try
> > > and reinstall kdelibs. On my system /etc/env.d/45kdepaths-3.5 belongs
> > > to kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r3.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps.
> >
> > kdelibs rebuild takes quite some time, so if you need i'll post my env
> > files:
> <snip>
> Thanks to Brett and Beso,
> My 45kdeparts file was correct, I reinstalled kdelibs and now it all works
> correctly  ---  thanks.
> I just wish I new how I got into this mess, I'm sure I didn't remove any
> kde stuff.

I suspect that the reason it did not work after you restored the
45kdepaths is because you would have needed to run env-update to merge
the changes in to your environment. By re-emerging kdelibs the build
replaced the 45kdepaths file and ran env-update for you.  Just a theory
though. I have no idea why the 45kdepaths would have been deleted in the
first place.

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Brett Johnson
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