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Re: [trinity-users] Could not start kdeinit error

From: "Timothy Pearson" <kb9vqf@...>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:12:47 -0500
> On Fri, 2012-10-12 at 01:21 +0200, Slávek Banko wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 of October 2012 23:21:14 John A. Sullivan III wrote:
>> > Argh!! Uninstalling and reinstalling did not help.  Now I am a bit
>> stuck
>> > - although it is test, it is also a development system and we need to
>> > get back on it! What shall I try next?
>> >
>> > I did pick up this error in user.log regarding pulseaudio:
>> > Unable to contact D-Bus:
>> > org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /usr/bin/dbus-launch
>> > terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11
>> > initialization failed.
>> >
>> > Is there a log file where I can see more details about why kdeinit is
>> > failing? Thanks - John
>> >
>>
>> I now have only three ideas:
>> 1. Send your .xsession-errors if there's anything we can find.
>> 2. Try to rename your .trinity, if the problem persists with a new
>> profile.
>> 3. You have installed kgtk-qt3-trinity? Try to uninstall it.
>>
>> Slavek
> I tried removing kgtk-qt3-trinity first and, lo and behold, it solved
> the problem.  Why would that be? Thanks - John

This is very odd.  Slavek, do we need to blacklist that package on
Debian/Ubuntu at this point?

Thanks!

Tim