I just installed Opensuse 11 (kde 4), did a complete update and after restart I get “Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation”. I’m a recent convert to linux so I need some help here. Many thanks.
Do you have a command line ?
Can you startup yast from ?
I think kdeinit4 is damage or the cponfig of you,re
graphic card and monitor is not good ,
if you have a command line we can try to correct it
Dobby9
Everything seemed to go fine and updated without problems. After booting I get to a login page and after that to a command line. It’s installed on a dell laptop (inspiron 1500) with a budget ati card. Thanks for your help dobby.
Login the as root on the command line
SU enter
password enter
Start yast>hardware>Graphic card and monitor
If will probe you,re graphic card and monitor again
If it is O.K. save it
Than startx see if the xserver will start
if not type the command whereis kdeinit4
And give us the result
dobby9
If it helps I’ve used this same laptop with ubuntu 8, fedora 9 and opensuse 10.3, no issues like this.
After probing graphics and monitor on yast it seemed ok and I saved (it got an ati card and a cpt or ctp monitor). Then I typed startx and got the same error as before plus:
kdeinit4:symbol lookup error: usr/lib/libkio.so.5 undefined symbol: _NNK10KSslcipher12…
whereis kdeinit4, I got:
/usr/bin/X11/
/usr/bin/
Fedora 9 use kde3 Ubuntu kde ??
I knew that there are people with problems using kde4
I assume that you use kde4 in opensuse11
I have should ask it in the first place you,re media is O.K. ?
You did a media ?
Maybe the best way is to reinstall opensue 11 with kde3
dobby9
You’re right, everything I’ve tried so far was gnome. I’m gutted cause kde4 looked really nice. I’ll try kde3 then, see what happens.
thanks for your help.
Why would you recommend a reinstallation and then install kde3? You can manage software via yast.
I had the same problem with kde4 on my Open SUSE 11 and had to uninstall kde4 and go back to a previous version.
Did it all through yast and had no issues.
D.
From a root console, running yast2,
I reinstalled the following:
libkde4
libkde4-devel
libkdecore4
libkdecore4-devel
Then I executed the command killall X
I was able to login in as a normal user. KDE4 desktop is running again.
I do have one question:
What kind of fresh hell was that?!
This was a new (from scratch) installation. No updates were performed.
So, you did exactly that what the message told you. You checked your installation. Usually when kdeinit4 does not start with messages like these, there’s something wrong with kdelibs4* or kdebase4*.
If this happens, the best thing is to start yast from a terminal window with ‘su -c yast’ and update the entire KDE4 repo unconditionally. This will reinstall all KDE4 packages. 99.99% of times problem is solved.