KDE 4.1 won't start

[Eric]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Monday 04 August 2008, Eric wrote:
>> I just upgraded from 6.06 LTS to 8.04.1. I installed KDE 4.1. When I try
>> to start it the screen says KDE 4.1 and then it shows graphically the
>> different processes are shown loading. It gets all the way to the "K"
>> and then it goes back to the login screen.
>>
>> Any ideas?
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> This can sometime happen of KDE can't write to the home directory...  or some 
> other spot that is necessary to write to.
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> Look through your log files or try starting kdm from a CLI.   /etc/init.d/kdm 
> start
> 
> and look for error messages.

I'm not sure I understand. I booted up in text mode and I issued the 
command kdm. I got no response. No error message. Nothing changed in any 
way visibly. Is that the way you were suggesting I issue this command?

Eric

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