From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8 Description of problem: A HP zx6000 workstation running RHEL3u2 is unable to run KDE on the desktop. With "startkde"; in .xinitrc and in runlevel 3, when X is started from command line with "startx", the following error messages are shown: startkde: Starting up... ksplash: cannot connect to X server :0 Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory ksmserver: cannot connect to X server :0 startkde: Shutting down... Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. waiting for X server to shut down When using "twm"; in the .xinitrc file, X starts up no problems. However, KDE programs won't start from xterm command line either. They exit with the same "cannot connect to X server :0" error. Any non-KDE program starts up fine. I have tested with both the std kernel and errata kernel I have tested with the std install and with all the errata I have tested as a normal user and as root In all the cases nothing worked. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install with @everything 2. Apply all errata 3. Go into runlevel 3 4. echo "startkde" > ~/.xinitrc; chmod 755 ~/.xinitrc 5. startx Actual Results: with "startx", the following error messages are shown: startkde: Starting up... ksplash: cannot connect to X server :0 Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory ksmserver: cannot connect to X server :0 startkde: Shutting down... Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. waiting for X server to shut down Expected Results: Should have started kde desktop Additional info: Here are some data on the machine: Model: HP ZX6000 (Dual Itanium-2) Kernel: 2.4.21-15.0.3.EL RAM: 8GB Disks: 2x146GB SCSI-3 Nvidia driver: 5347 (from HP website - for this particular WS model)
does X server run correct on your machine? could you please try following steps: - go into runlevel3 (telinit 3) - remove $HOME/.xinitrc (rm -f $HOME/.xinitrc) - start X in simple mode (xinit) if these steps works, you should get xterm. please try to start KDE in xterm with "startkde" does this problem still appear. could you please send me the /var/log/XFree86.0.log. does it work if you use GDM to start KDE?
Created attachment 102133 [details] Xfree86.0.log
See above comment (#2) for Xfree86.0.log Using xinit w/o the .xinitrc and starting kde from within the xterm makes no difference. The same applies to starting KDE from GDM.
I have tried to start KDE applications on ia64 with RHEL3 remotely. It works fine for me. i cannot reproduce this problem here. It seems a setting problem to me here. Did you start it remotely or locally? are you using HOME over NFS? Ben, could you reproduce this problem?
There were no NFS mounts on this machine. I was logging in as root when doing most of my testing. If this is a setting issue then it's a setting issue with the default @Everything install, since I didn't modify any system settings. This was a cleanly installed machine.
strange! i have done a new RHEL3 installion on ia64. KDE works fine without this problem. It would be good if i could get a better test case!
Ngo, What do you now suggest? This is delaying the IA64 release for Shell. We have a weekly telecon with Larry Troan and Karen Bennett for high profile issues. Should I raise this for them to get some more local support made available for us. We need to identify the problem and solution quickly. Thnaks Leigh
it looks like you are using nvidia drivers from NVIDIA! Could you please try to remove nvidia drivers from NVIDIA first and reconfigure your Xserver for using nv driver from XFree86 and try to start KDE again? Please make sure that nvidia drivers from NVIDIA is removed completely.
Ngo, I removed the nvidia driver and configured X to use the nv driver. KDE now works. This driver is for a certified and supported platform, namely the HP ZX6000 workstation. The driver I am using can be found here: (may wrap) http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp? pnameOID=82069&locale=en_US&taskId=135&prodSeriesId=82067&prodTypeId=1 2454&swEnvOID=1100 Thanks, Xander