KDE2 blows up

[Tom Wilson]

On Tuesday 30 July 2002 03:19 pm, David A. Bandel's voice rose above 
the ones in my head and declared:

> Folks,
>
> I recently threw Debian at a box and most things work well (the
> Debian folks being kinda anal about bugs, just wish they'd correct
> that GNU bug where GNU keeps showing up in front of Linux like GNU
> owned Linux).
>
> Anyway, Gnome works, Blackbox works, etc.  However, when KDE2 starts,
> it gets to the keyboard/mouse icon, flashes once or twice, then blows
> up. The only things in the logs suggest perhaps ksmserver can't
> connect to
>
> :0., and that :0 exited.
>
> Any suggestions where to start looking?

David,

I had installed an old version of Debian, 2.1 I believe, awhile ago and 
it wouldn't start a desktop but would start Sawfish.  It had similar 
errors in the logs.  

What it was with mine was the installation crapped out towards the end 
but not hard is guess seeing as I could log into the system.  I ran 
setup again from the CL and it finished about 30 seconds of 
installation processes and there were no problems after that.  

Might be worth a shot.

-- 
Tom Wilson
Reg. Linux User #199331
"Weaseling out of stuff is what separates us from the rest of the 
animals.....except the weasels."