Please help - KDE not starting up in Slackware

[desiguy]

Hello everyone,
I have tried to configuring x windows by using xf86config but I keep getting the following messages when I start it. I think that KDE is all buggered up.

This is what I get when I type in startx. Just to warn you, I am a complete noob when it comes to Linux


root@bombay:~# startx
xauth: creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.2025

_XSERVTransSocketOpenCOTSServer: Unable to open socket for inet6
_XSERVTransOpen: transport open failed for inet6/bombay:0
_XSERVTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to open listener for inet6

X Window System Version 6.9.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9
Build Operating System: Linux 2.4.33.3 i686 [ELF]
Current Operating System: Linux bombay 2.4.33.3 #1 Fri Sep 1 01:48:52 CDT 2006 i686
Build Date: 16 September 2006
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Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Jun 1 22:55:48 2007
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
(EE) I810(0): [agp] Unable to allocate system texture memory. Disabling DRI.
Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/, removing from list!
kde-config: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
xset: bad font path element (#6, possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
xset: bad font path element (#6, possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: libexpat.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.

[daark.child]

It seems like X cannot find the expat library. Is it installed on your system?

[desiguy]

xpat library? I am not sure, how would I check that?

[daark.child]

What is the output of running

#find /usr -name "libexpat*"

[desiguy]

root@bombay:~# find /usr -name "libexpat*"
/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0
/usr/lib/libexpat.a
/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0
/usr/lib/libexpat.la
/usr/lib/libexpat.so


One thing I forgot to mention is that this is a fresh out of the box installation of Slackware. I did a full install of slackware

[aliov]

root@bombay:~# find /usr -name "libexpat*"
/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0
/usr/lib/libexpat.a
/usr/lib/libexpat.so.0.5.0
/usr/lib/libexpat.la
/usr/lib/libexpat.so


One thing I forgot to mention is that this is a fresh out of the box installation of Slackware. I did a full install of slackware

your kde is looking for libexpat.so.1 , so make a symlink .
ln -sv /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1

You said it's a fresh installation of Slack,so that's very strange to me !!!!

[Freston]

I have tried to configuring x windows by using xf86config but I keep getting the following messages when I start it. I think that KDE is all buggered up.

Oh oh... Why? Did you brake it?

With a fresh install of Slack KDE should work just fine. It's just that Slack doesn't boot into graphics mode by default. This can be changed of course. Have you gotten KDE to work once on your system? If not, I guess a reinstall might be fastest.