KDE Crashed

[Mr_Munkey]

Hello,

Here's the background on the crash...

Slackware 9.1
KDE 3.2.2
qt-3.3.2


I was checking some email (the spam folder hadn't been checked in a long time) with Kmail. There was something like 19500 email messages in the folder. I then went to delete them all, and Kmail locked up and crashed asking if I wanted to end the process. I said yes and figured I could just go ahead and run kmail again... now I got a backtrace error. So, I figure, let's just remove kdepim and install it again. Same thing happened. So now I figure... let's just shut down X and start it up again. Now kde wouldn't start. It the kicker and everything crashed and gave a backtrace and eventually quit. All the backtraces gave almost no information other than "when this package was created they messed it up so now we can't give you a good backtrace". I figure... let's just hose all the KDE packages and install them again. So, I hose all the packages... fire up window maker (still works) and grabbed all the packages off www.linuxpackages.net. I then install kdelibs and kdebase.... now it just says "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation." When X ends this is the info I get back


satartkde: Starting up...
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 157: 24506 Illegal instruction kreadconfig --file kpersonalizerrc --group General --key FirstLogin --default true --type bool
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 160: 24507 Illegal instruction ksplash --nodcop
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 164: 24508 Illegal instruction LD_BIND_NOW=true kdeinit +kcminit +knotify
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 101: 24510 Illegal instruction kwrapper ksmserver $KDEWM
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
/opt/kde/bin/startkde: line 193: artsshell: command not found
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.


I've looked on Google, here and a few other forums, but nothing seems to help. I've re-installed QT, fam, kde. The only thing I haven't re-installed is XFree86, but that's working just fine. The kdelibs bug has been patched by now, so I wouldn't think that would be causing the problem.

I think that's it, but if I missed something I'm sure you guys will remind me ;)

Thanks

[JohnT]

You should have deleted all you .kde sub-directories in your user/home directory before re-starting. Might want to clear out your /temp directory too. Try it now then reboot. BTW are you using Swaret to upgrade? If you are before downloading any packages next time to do a major fix like this run the command"swaret --purge" this will delete all the packages in the swaret cache directory and download new. I would get my packages from an official Slackware mirror rather than "Linuxpackages", but thats just me.

[Mr_Munkey]

Still not working :(

I'm using the same files I originally installed KDE with. Maybe I'll have to spring for the ones off the official sites. I hosed everything I could think of. /opt/kde, /tmp, ~/Desktop. I'm running out of ideas.

When I re-install... I'm installing kdelibs first and then kdebase. They're the only two reqired right?

Thanks.

[JohnT]

You never answered my question as to whether you use swaret or not with swaret it is as simple to upgrade as.."swaret --upgrade kde" and No those are not the only two files needed.

[Mr_Munkey]

I've downloaded the files myself. I don't really trust swaret to do installs, but rather use it for updating.

From my reading on
http://www.kde.org/documentation/faq/install.html#prerequisites
those were the only two packages required and the others were optional, but it does look like that might be a bit out of date. Of course qt is required as well, and is installed. I had KDE working just fine this morning, but now it's b0rk ;) I'll have to try installing the rest of the packages I've downloaded (kdeutils, kdeadmin, kdepim).

Thanks for the help.

[Mr_Munkey]

Thanks for the help :)

I downloaded the new kde 3.2.3 packages from an official server and now everything is working okay. I also re-installed QT and arts.

Thanks again

[mdwatts]

If ever you have over 19,000 email messages in your spam folder, you could try manually removing those emails while outside of Kmail.

Look in /home/<user>/Mail/spam/curr

It's either 'curr' or 'new'.

[Mr_Munkey]

I tried that, but the argument list was too long for rm *. I was lazy and rather than write a shell script to do it I just figured I'd use kmail ;)

Thanks :)