[NCLUG] kdeinit failing on latest KRUD (RH 8.0)

[Michael Crosiar]

I still have not found a solution. How do I find out
who the maintainer of the source is? If I had the
source I'm sure I could figure out what is going
wrong...

--- Michael Crosiar <crosiarcm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I created a new user and was still not able to login
> to KDE. kdeinit version looks fine. Here are the
> contents of ~/.xsession-errors:
> 
> kdeinit: relocation error:
> /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol:
> FT_Get_Next_Char
> 
> I'm sure this is the problem, and looks like it
> could
> be related to the char-major-81 issue. I'm googling
> now...
> 
> --- Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:
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> > >>>>> "Michael" == Michael Crosiar
> > <crosiarcm at yahoo.com> writes:
> > 
> > Michael> Hello all, I just upgraded to the latest
> > KRUD. The problem I
> > Michael> am having is that KDE will not start. It
> > brings up a box that
> > Michael> says "Couldn't start kdeinit". No
> messages
> > appear on the
> > Michael> console and the only thing I can see in
> > /var/log/messages is
> > Michael> "Can't locate module char-major-81", but
> > I'm not sure if this
> > Michael> is related.
> > 
> > char-major-81 appears to be a radio device.
> Perhaps
> > some multimedia
> > app probing to see if you have a radio card? 
> > 
> > Michael> Any ideas? Is there another log for KDE
> > somewhere that might
> > Michael> be a little more specific?
> > 
> > You can look in ~/.xsession-errors and see if
> there
> > is any more
> > specific messages in there. That should be the
> > output of any commands
> > that run while you are logging in. 
> > 
> > Can a newly created user login with KDE? Might be
> > something in your
> > setup? 
> > 
> > kdeinit appears to be in the kdelibs package, you
> > might make sure
> > thats installed: 
> > 
> > % which kdeinit 
> > /usr/bin/kdeinit
> > % rpm -qf /usr/bin/kdeinit
> > kdelibs-3.0.3-8.3
> > 
> > Michael> Thanks.
> > 
> > kevin
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