On Thursday 01 April 2004 01:38 pm, Khalid Aziz wrote: > > I finally figured out I had libXrender in /usr/lib as well as in > /usr/X11R6/lib. I deleted the one under /usr/X11R6/lib, ran ldconfig and > voila gdm started working. I was able to launch all apps as before as > well. I have no idea which package did the libXrender under > /usr/X11R6/lib come from. > > This may be a long shot, but check if you have the same problem. I only had the one in /usr/X11R6/lib but I did not have one without the version numbers, i.e. libXrender.so so I made one by soft linking to a verioned libXrender Didn't help, however.
I have since done apt-get update followed by apt-get upgrade Then I didn't even have a link to startkde so I did get a window but no window manager After I made a link to startkde, I'm back to the same problem I have one new observation: when it fails to start Kde it reports that it cannot connect to :0 But when I start it as root and get twm, when I shut it down, it reports the display as :0.0 :0 versus :0.0 Could this be the problem? Richard
