Argh help.. kdeinit error

2000-12-14 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi All, Just installed the latest packages in the Debian (us.debian.org) unstable (Woody) distribution. Now KDE will not launch properly, gets as far as the desktop (backdrop, colours, icons etc) but no further. Xsession error reported is: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Trying to launch kdeinit.

Still no startup - Woody

2000-12-15 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, Installed the latest Woody packages (2.1?) and Kde still refuses to startup fully. Error message is: ERROR: KUniqueApplication: Trying to launch kdeinit. kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1 I can get some semblance of normality by manually running (from t

Re: Still no startup - Woody

2000-12-15 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, > > Installed the latest Woody packages (2.1?) and Kde still refuses to > > startup fully. > > it is starting up fully. oh... > > It appears only kwin and kdesktop are running at startup. > > that is all that is launched at startup. > > ( -- from changelog -- ) > >* Removing kde2 from x-

Even more problems trying to start kde (woody)

2000-12-18 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, (Ivan is going to shoot me after this question yet again) :) I upgraded today to the later 2.1beta packages off debian woody. My KDE again refuses to start, I now don't even get kwin, kdesktop or anything. No probs I thought, and remembered Ivan's last advice to alter /urs/bin/kwm to run

Re: Even more problems trying to start kde (woody)

2000-12-18 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Ok forget this - sorry I just saw the later post about adding a window manager to /etc/alternatives That fixed it - so forget this thread... On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:48, Rick Van Ruth wrote: > Hi, > > (Ivan is going to shoot me after this question yet again) :) > > I upgraded tod

abbrowser

2000-12-19 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi all, Running Kde 2.1 on Woody Abbrowser fails to start, the error is as follows. Is this a packaging problem or a 2,1 problem? WARNING: library=abbrowser.la: No file names abbrowser.la found in paths. KMKernel::init: KabApi initialized. abbrowser: error while loading shared libraries: abbrow

Ok, KDE2 won't start.

2001-02-27 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, Upgraded fine to the latest Kde2 in Debian/unstable. However now nothing will load at startup. Tried a few config changes etc but nothing seemed to help. I have downgraded to the beta version just to get Kde running again :( Below is the errors file, any ideas anybody? Its like it can't fin

Re: Ok, KDE2 won't start.

2001-02-27 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, > > Upgraded fine to the latest Kde2 in Debian/unstable. However now nothing > > will load at startup. Tried a few config changes etc but nothing seemed > > to help. I have downgraded to the beta version just to get Kde running > > again :( > > > > Below is the errors file, any ideas anybody?

Re: Ok, KDE2 won't start.

2001-02-28 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, > > > what version of libqt/kdelibs/kdebase do you have installed? > > > > Well I've downgraded back to beta - but here's the list of packages > > listed in /var/cache/apt/archives that were installed: > > > > kdebase-libs_4%3a2.1-final-1_i386.deb > > kdebase_4%3a2.1-final-1_i386.deb > > kdeli

Re: Ok, KDE2 won't start.

2001-02-28 Thread Rick Van Ruth
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 18:10, Ivan E. Moore II wrote: > > > > kdebase-libs_4%3a2.1-final-1_i386.deb > > > > kdebase_4%3a2.1-final-1_i386.deb > > > > kdelibs3_4%3a2.1-final-1_i386.deb > > > > libarts-alsa_4%3a2.1-final-1_i386.deb > > > > libkmid-alsa_4%3a2.1-final-1_i386.deb > > > > libkonq3_4%3a2.1-fi

Re: Ok, KDE2 won't start.

2001-02-28 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, The installation of xfonts-scalable solved the problem here. Kde now starts fine, perhaps a new dependency is in order :) Thanks Ivan > > Anyway, needless to say nothing worked, however I did find one little > > point > > of interest. I could install the new QT liraries (libqt2 libqt2.2) w

Kconsole

2001-03-02 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Hi, After the later update to KDE2.1 in Debian unstable it appears in the "Settings" for Kconsole that the "Keyboard" settings for 'xterm (xfree 3x)' and 'xterm (xfree 4x)' have not only swapped places but they both now do the same thing which is the xfree 4x style of keyboard. Anyway to get t

Re: Kconsole

2001-03-03 Thread Rick Van Ruth
Thanks Andreas, this has worked in the interim. Strange how one gets used to using certain keys, I'm lost without those home/end keys, they are like an instinctual thing when using the console. On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 22:35, Andreas Trottmann wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 11:11:56PM -0700, Ivan E

Re: arts and railroadtycoon

2001-03-04 Thread Rick Van Ruth
On Sun, 4 Mar 2001 19:34, David Kempe wrote: > Hey, > Sound doesn't work in railroad tycoon cos it reckons it can't access the > sound card... I think its because arts sound daemon is running. > Is there a way to stop arts nicely? What the debian policy on which sound > server does what and how to