I know I have experienced a little weirdness with permissions in /tmp and kde. I have had no problems just rm'ing everything, and then starting X. Have you tried doing a `startx` and then C-A-F1 to get back to the first terminal and watch the startup messages?
Spencer On Monday 29 April 2002 07:36 pm, Jeffrey Forman wrote: > When I stick in my wireless ethernet card into a pcmcia slot, it comes > up as irq3. I can then startx & kde (from startx) only if I do not > configure the card. I either configure it by ifup eth1 (for static) or > just run dhcpcd eth1 to get a dhcp address. If I configure the card, it > halts at "initializing system services." > > This is in .xsession-errors: > jforman@pikesmarket:~$ cat .xsession-errors > _KDE_IceTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix should be set to root > DCOPServer up and running. > jforman@pikesmarket:~$ > > After a reboot, and only initializing my builtin ethernet device, it > does the same thing. Same message when starting X as root also. Below is > a listing of /tmp. For some reason it seems to be setting > /tmp/.ICE-unix/ to jforman, my normal user account. Any ideas? > > jforman@pikesmarket:/tmp$ ls -al > total 32 > drwxrwxrwt 7 root root 4096 Apr 29 19:28 . > drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Apr 8 00:22 .. > drwxrwxrwt 2 jforman jforman 4096 Apr 29 19:27 .ICE-unix > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Apr 29 19:28 .X11-unix > drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Apr 29 19:24 .font-unix > -rw------- 1 jforman jforman 241 Apr 29 19:27 dcopECGNsv > drwx------ 2 jforman jforman 4096 Apr 29 19:27 kde-jforman > drwx------ 2 jforman jforman 4096 Apr 29 19:27 ksocket-jforman > jforman@pikesmarket:/tmp$ > > Was poking around /proc and found an irq directory, but only containing > directories of numbers which seemed to be irq's with no files inside > them to list the devices correlated with each irq. There a nifty little > app built in to list irq's that I am forgetting about? Thanks, > > Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jakub Otwinowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:29 PM > To: Jeffrey Forman; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Siglinux] KDE and network up wierdness > > On Monday 29 April 2002 06:18 pm, Jeffrey Forman wrote: > > I recently started to experience this problem on my Dell laptop > > running debian woody, with kde 2.2.2. I login via the console and > > startup X via startx. It gets to the splash screen, and gets to the > > 2nd step, "registering system services" and just stops. The splash > > screen icon flashes like its thinking, but no hard disk activity. Top > > shows no apparent mem spewage or the cpu being maxed out. But this > > only happens under one situation, if I initialize a network interface > > before doing startx. If I run 'dhcpcd' on any of my eth0 or eth1, or > > with a static ip. If I don't setup any network interfaces and run > > startx right after logging in, kde starts up fine. > > > > XFree86.log shows nothing out of the ordinary. > > Any ideas? > > > > TIA, > > Jeff > > check your .xsession-errors > > > _______________________________________________ > Siglinux mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux _______________________________________________ Siglinux mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.utacm.org/mailman/listinfo/siglinux
