On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Peter Yellman wrote: > This bug may be #446970 "kdeinit not found", but I don't see how the > suggestion given there (make sure that ksmserver is update to 3.5.8) can > help, since 3.5.8 is not in testing. > > I normally start a KDE desktop session from the console, using startx. > After a recent update startx only flashes the nVidia logo, shows the "x" > cursor, then goes blank. > > However, starting a desktop session through kdm brings up the login prompt > and KDE desktop successfully.
This might be related to the following two threads on KDE's user support lists: http://lists.kde.org/?t=119527809700002&r=1&w=2 http://lists.kde.org/?t=119543865800003&r=1&w=2 Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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