dave843 Posted February 6, 2005 Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 (edited) Hi, I'm new to linux, but I've used Solaris (and other unix systems) for several years. I recently tried installing Mandrake 10.1 on an old pc I have that's not doing anything else. It seemed pretty straightforward, download the cds, and follow the instructions. Everything went pretty well until I logged into KDE. When I logged into KDE as a normal user, Kicker didn't work at all. I would get a couple of icons on the desktop (home, trash, ...), but no "start" button. I could right-click, and do a couple of things, but not having Kicker makes things a pain. I discovered that if I logged into KDE as root, I got Kicker, but I did not get the icons on the desktop, and right-clicking on the desktop didn't do anything. This problem only exists in KDE. If I log into icewm (sp?), everything works fine. Next, I figured I would make sure I'm running the latest versions of everything. So, I went into the Mandrake Control Center, and did the software update thing. I updated all packages, but that didn't help. I tried removing the ~/.kde/share/kickerrc file, but that didn't help either. I tried running "kdeinit kicker" and that didn't work, it said it couldn't communicate with kicker, it must have crashed. At this point I was wondering how the heck it worked for root, but not for a normal user. I tried to compare root's kickerrc file to the user one, but there is no .kde directory in /root. So, "find / -name kickerrc" gave me /usr/share/mdk/kde/root-interface/kickerrc. And that one is different than the user one. So, I copied that one over top of the user one, and voila, it works!! What is up with that? It also looks like it's only me, I can't find anything like this in search or google. Edited February 6, 2005 by dave843 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave843 Posted February 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 Here is what happens when I try to start kicker (with the default kickerrc file in place): bash-2.05b$ kdeinit kicker kdeinit: Shutting down running client. --------------------------------- It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/someuser/.DCOPserver_somemachine__0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used KDE Daemon (kded) already running. QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca bash-2.05b$ ERROR: Communication problem with kicker, it probably crashed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave843 Posted February 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2005 One more thing... When I was installing Mandrake, it wouldn't complete the tests for my video card (S3 Virge VGA). Every time I told it to test the settings, it would go to a solid blue screen, with an X as a mouse pointer. It wouldn't go anywhere else. I had to alt+ctrl+backspace out of it. I set it to not start X on boot. I logged in (text mode), ran XFdrake, and it tested and ran fine... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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