On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:41, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Bruno wrote:
> > > Bruno wrote:
> > > > Hello to All,
> > > >
> > > > still receive 'could not start kdeinit. please check your
> > > > installation' when calling startx.
> >
> > Hi All,
> > I have indeed the following error in .xsession-errors file:
> >
> > ...
> > kdeinit: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libXft.so.2: undefined symbol:
> > FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden
> > startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.
> > ...
>
> well I'm using sid, so check your own stuff, but:
>
> apt-cache show kdebase-bin | grep Depends
>
> ... libxft2 (> 2.1.1) ...
>
> apt-cache policy libxft2
>
> ...
> Installed: 2.1.8.2-5.1
> ...
>
> so in my system it should work fine, what does yours say?
>
> IOW, looks like you've got a mismatched version. kde is trying to call
> something form libxft and its not there.
>
> I think.
>
> my .02, ymmv etc.
>
> A
>

libxft2 version 2.1.8.2-x seems buggy (see bug#353565)
Installation of previous version 2.1.7-1 resolved the problem of 'could not 
start kdeinit'.


Bye,
Bruno



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