On Monday 23 May 2011 02:42:21 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Bill Longman <bill.long...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Obvious fix: don't use konsole. > > > > Use xterm. > > > > -- > > Bill Longman > > Bill, > That's not a fix as it isn't konsole I care about but things like > oocalc, systemsettings and other things which all fail with the same > error message. > > As of yet I haven't figured out what the update process messed up > by something has gone sideways on that machine. > > - Mark
Mark, Can you start anything that isn't KDE-related? Like xclock, xterm,...? That way we can check if the problem is SSH/X related or KDE-related. You could also try starting a VNC-session to see if that would allow you to start programs. Is "dbus" actually running? And is it included in the USE-flags? Also, later KDE versions require policykit/consolekit, Consolekit has a service as well that needs to be running. -- Joost
