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Can't start KDE [solved]


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I can't start KDE with my normal user. I'm currently running IceWM and the only KDE applications I can run is those that don't access the internet. I can for example run kmail, but I can't enter my password (it doesn't react to the keyboard). I can't run kontact at all. The problem persists even if I rename the ~/.kde directory. If I run as root I can start KDE normally. I didn't test it too much as root as I don't feel too comfortable running X as root. Does anybody have any idea how to fix this problem. Attached is a .xsession-errors file from an attempt to start KDE.

xsession_errors.txt

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as root: try to chown your user-home directory with the username you're using

#chown your-username.your-username -R /home/your-username

 

then see what will happen..

Unfortunately no change. I found that an xmessage process is running trying to display this message:

Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.
It's at lines 337 and 338 of /usr/bin/startkde. It even tries to write this to standard out, but I've not seen this message.
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