Cliff McDiarmid wrote:
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "James Richard Tyrer" <[email protected]>
>> To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: Problem booting into KDE-4.3
>> Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:24:10 -0700
> 
>> That is not the command which I am using.  You might try changing it to:
>>
>> eval `dbus-launch --exit-with-session`
>> exec startkde
>>
>> --
>> James Tyrer
> 
> Thanks for the advice James, but the problem still persists.  Haven't had any 
> time to mess with it in the last week(I use 2nd LFS on another partition), 
> but I think It's a dbus problem, although would welcome advice to the 
> contrary.  I can get an xterm with clock etc, but when I startx (have 
> .Xinitrc in users account with the above in it) I'm thrown back to command 
> prompt.  End of log reads:
> 
> startkde: Starting up...
> Failed to start message bus: Element <servicedir> is not allowed in this 
> contextEOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon
> startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?
> 
That last line probably means that the D-Bus (a.k.a. message bus) daemon 
isn't running.

Try (as root):

/etc/rc.d/init.d/messagebus status

-- 
James Tyrer

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