Bug 518638

Summary:	startkde fails: segmentation fault in kdeinit4 +kcminit_startup
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Robin Green <greenrd>
Component:	kdelibs	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	rawhide	CC:	fedora, jreznik, kevin, lorenzo, ltinkl, rdieter, smparrish, than
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Description Robin Green 2009-08-21 12:15:12 UTC

Description of problem:
Attempting to startkde on a remote X server fails with a segfault in kdeinit4.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kdelibs-4.3.0-5.fc12

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. export DISPLAY=some_remote_display
2. startkde
  
Actual results:
A black-and-white dialog box appears saying KDE failed to start. On the console, the output ends with this:
/usr/bin/startkde: line 321:  2859 Segmentation fault     LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit4 kcminit_startup
startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation.

Expected results:
KDE should start on the remote display.

Additional info:
kdebase-workspace-4.3.0-8.fc12.i686
Rawhide is running in a VirtualBox 3.0.4_OSE VM running on Mac OS X 10.5.8.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2009-08-21 12:34:46 UTC

Possibly a variant of bug #515539

Comment 2 Rex Dieter 2009-08-21 12:35:17 UTC

Mind checking the workarund in the aforementioned bug, and see if it helps you?

Comment 3 Robin Green 2009-08-21 13:04:35 UTC

Yes, it works for me - thanks.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 515539 ***