KDE woes

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Hey folks,

I'm brand new to Linux. I've just installed RH 7.2 on my home machine, using KDE as my desktop manager. However, my KDE desktop won't start.

I run XF86Config, trying several different combinations and generic drivers. However, every time I start KDE, it loads to the blue background w/ the mouse cursor and I get the following error messages:

xset: bad font path element (#38), possible causes are:
Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions.
Directory missing fonts.dir
Incorrect font server address or syntax.

Ksplash: error while loading shared libraries libqt.so.2: cannot opent shared object file: no such file or directory.

Kdeinit: " "

Ksmserver: " "

connect () failed: no such file or directory
waiting for X server to shutodwn...
XIM debug.

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Basically what I can figure out from this is I'm missing the library file 'libqt.so.2' or it's linked incorrectly as to allow KDE to see it / use this file.

Anyone have any suggestions? I can't seem to find this file / library on the Enigma CDs, anything that looked like it was that file, I installed the library. It's made no different.

I would appreciate some help.

-T

[GaryJones32]

this is odd
I have heard of this happening from os version upgrades
but not from clean installs of released versions.

This is a very complicated proplem with lots of variables.
basically the kde startup scripts aren't getting the proper path variables.
Your font variables are messed up too which makes me wonder if all of X11 is installed correctly ??

There is a utility to help troubleshoot kde troubles
try:
kde-config --prefix
and
kde-config --path lib
and tell us what the output for those two commands is.

for instance the error message is saying it's looking for
libqt.so.2 but it should say /usr/lib/libqt.so.2 i think

it may be possible if libqt is in some strange place to add it's path into the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH
variable in your home directory .bash_profile

I think i would uninstall everything kde and qt
and reinstall the qt and kde stuff on the cd
(don't try to update any of kde or qt till you get it going)
KDE2.2 yes ?
i hope that helps
i don't know how to use redhat so my answers are generall

did you do a large install off the cd's or just a core install you are now trying to build onto ?