F10: could not start ksmserver
Tarjei Knapstad
tarjei.knapstad at gmail.com
Sat Feb 28 12:50:37 UTC 2009
2009/2/28 Tarjei Knapstad <tarjei.knapstad at gmail.com>:
> 2009/2/28 Tarjei Knapstad <tarjei.knapstad at gmail.com>:
>> A recent update seems to have botched KDE somehow. When I log in I get
>> an xmessage stating "Could not start ksmserver. Check your
>> installation."
>> If I click OK the window manager dies, but if I just let it sit there
>> I can use my desktop just fine...
>>
>> This started showing today, apparently after last nights updates.
>> These updates included:
>>
>> gdm-user-switch-applet-2.24.1-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:23 CET
>> xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.1.3-1.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:22 CET
>> libpng-devel-1.2.35-1.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
>> 22:50:22 CET
>> pygtk2-libglade-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:21 CET
>> setup-2.7.4-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb
>> 2009 22:50:20 CET
>> pygtk2-devel-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:18 CET
>> pygtk2-codegen-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:17 CET
>> pygtk2-doc-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:10 CET
>> ntfs-3g-2009.2.1-2.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
>> 22:50:07 CET
>> libmusicbrainz3-3.0.2-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009 22:50:05 CET
>> pygtk2-2.13.0-3.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
>> 22:49:59 CET
>> gdm-2.24.1-4.fc10 Fri 27 Feb 2009
>> 22:49:19 CET
>> libpng-1.2.35-1.fc10 Fri 27 Feb
>> 2009 22:49:04 CET
>>
>> After googling the issue I found a suggestion saying that I should
>> check the perms on my . files in $HOME. Everything seems OK here.
>>
>
> Some additional info: If I try to run ksmserver manually from a shell
> I get this:
>
> Could not register with D-BUS. Aborting.
>
> I have dbus-1.2.4-2.fc10.i386
>
And now it's starting to get really weird. If I restart the X server,
then change to a console (ctrl-alt-f2) and log in and back out again
before logging into X everything's fine... How is that possible..?
(I've repoduced this 4 times just to be sure. Restarting X and logging
back in results in the error message. If I log in and back out from a
console first everything's fine...)
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Tarjei
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