Error: "Could not start kdeinit..." [solved]

[jethro]

Hi everybody,

 

I updated my system with the SoS sources. I already had KDE 3.5.3 installed and working. After my update I rebooted and I got the following error message:

Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.

 

I used the following code for updating:

urpmi --auto-select

 

There was supposed to be some kind of error in the qt 3.3.6 packages, so I replaced all of the 3.3.6 packages from SoS with the 3.3.5 versions of them.

 

These are the packages I replaced.

libeditor1-3.3.6-5.1.20060.SoS
libqassistantclient1-3.3.6-5.1.20060.SoS
libdesignercore1-3.3.6-5.1.20060.SoS

 

I found these packages with this code:

rpm -qa | grep 3.3.6 | grep SoS

 

I removed them with this code:

rpm -e --nodeps <packagename>

 

The result is that I still get the same error message, does anybody know how to fix this?

 

Thanks in advance for the help.

 

Greetings,

Jethro

 

[moved from Installing Mandriva by spinynorman]

[ffi]

Did you try making a new user and see if you can start kde from that user?

[Ixthusdan]

The kde rpms are not "mixable" between thac and SoS. You can try to change your /home/.kde folde to /home/.kdeback and create a new folder. But there may still be a problem.

[jethro]

I only use the SoS sources in combination with the official Mandriva sources. I am not sure what you mean by "thac"?

 

I found the underlying error message of my problem:

kdeinit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Free

 

I tried googling, but I did not find anything useful.

 

With "rpm-qf /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1" I found out that the /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 file belongs to this package: "libfontconfig1-2.3.2-5mdk". Perhaps this one needs upgrading?

 

I will try the new user approach in a moment.

[jethro]

Creating a new user and trying to start KDE with that one has the same result.

[ffi]

ehm do you have etc-update installed (else install with urpmi etc-update) and run it, maybe there's a config file somewhere which should be updated?

[jethro]

I installed etc-update. It comes upt with a lot of changes, the first one in "/etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc.rpmnew". For every change I have 6 options:

1 - upgrade

2 - keep existing

3 - merge the twoe files

4 - show the difference again

5 - skip (keep all files)

6 - Quit etc-update

 

Is it save to chose option1 for all the files etc-update comes up with?

[ffi]

try show differences first

 

I while ago I launched it for the first time and updated about 140 files w/o ill effects but I dont know for your system off course....

[jethro]

The difference list looks quite large, and I am not sure what they mean...

[jethro]

I tried to do it, but it did not solve anything : ( Do you have any order ideas?

Edited June 15, 2006 by jethro

[ffi]

did you try updating again, maybe not all components were uploaded to the server when you updated

 

or the kbuildsycoca command

 

you could also go to irc mandriva or mandriva-cooker channels and ask Hawkwind the maker of those rpms....

Edited June 15, 2006 by ffi

[jethro]

Thank you guys for the help. As ffi suggested I updated again and now everything works like a charm!