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Description of Problem: When I execute startx, KDE will display the KDE log and hang for several seconds on "Initializing system services". After a while, the logo disappears and I am left with a blank blue screen (i.e. no front panel). I have to exit using ctrl-alt-backspace. When I exit, I see the following message: --------------------------------- It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure that it is not already running, remove /home/stephen/.DCOPserver_h24-83-219-128_:0 and start dcopserver again. --------------------------------- kdeinit: Communication error with launcher. Exiting! KDE Daemon (kded) already running. I am running gnome to submit this bug and when I do "ps -ef | grep kde", I get: stephen 1053 1 0 Feb27 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: dcopserver --nosid stephen 1965 1 0 Feb27 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: klauncher stephen 2588 1 0 Feb27 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit: Running... stephen 2805 2668 0 00:06 pts/1 00:00:00 grep kde Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): I installed the following RPMS from updates.redhat.com: arts-2.2.2-2.i386.rpm kdebase-2.2.2-1.i386.rpm kdelibs-2.2.2-2.i386.rpm kdelibs-sound-2.2.2-2.i386.rpm libxml2-2.4.10-0.7x.2.i386.rpm libxslt-1.0.7-2.i386.rpm How Reproducible: 100% but I haven't re-booted yet. Expected Results: KDE starts up properly. Additional Information: I just recently installed (not upgraded) 7.2 on this machine. Previously I had 7.1 installed and working fine with KDE on this machine. I have done minimal configuration changes to this machine so far and nothing to do with X or KDE, yet. It is basically vanilla.
Rebooting didn't fix the problem.
Does "rm -rf /tmp/.X11-unix /tmp/.ICE-unix ~/.DCOP* ~/.kde/tmp-* ~/.kde/socket*" help?
That worked. What did I just do? Can you point me to some documentation explaining this black magic?
Hmmm..., it seemed to only work that one time. Removing these files again has no effect.
There is a problem with the sound system. Before it stopped starting up, I would get an error saying that it was using a null sound device or something like that.
Which kernel and soundcard are you using?
If you are interested, my sound card is an old Soundblaster 16. My kernel is kernel-2.4.9-31 (i386). I am going to close this since I haven't noticed the startup problem since upgrading to KDE 3.0