> Hi all, > > I have been following TDE development, howeverI don't like Ubuntu's > "way of life" and Debian Squeese lacked some drivers I need, so I've > been using Squeese based Mepis 11 for the last moths (Warren finaly > put together a usable KDE 4.x desktop). > > With the release of TDE 3.5.13 I decided to look if I could install it > on Mepis. I followed the instructions for Squeese and actually > everything went smoothly, except that update-initramfs failed, so I > had to run it again with -t -u > > The problem I'm trying to solve is this: after reboot, I was able to > choose TDE as environment for my session. However, I get a "Could not > start kdeinit. check your installation" message. When I click "OK", > TDE seems to load correctly, but kicker crashes on me very often, some > settings can't be done (e.g. I cant change the clock, clicking on > "configure clock" crashes kicker). I don't seem to find the TDE > settings, which I would expect to be linked to this error too. > > Where should I look to try and understand *what* prevents kdeinit to > start? I'm not sure if this culd be a KDE 4 / TDE conflict. This is > not a production install, so I can try almost anything. > > thanks for any suggestions, > > Thierry > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Can you post the Qt3 version you have installed with: dpkg -l | grep qt-x11 Thanks! Tim