rawhide of 20060223: KDE fails to start

[Marcel J.E. Mol]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 07:01:27PM +0100, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> (this is a repeat from my previous report on udev and kde, but as this does not
> seem to be related to udev, I reposted without the udev stuff).
> 
> After I uppgraded rawhide from a couple of weeks ago to rawhide of yesterday.
> it seems not possible to start kde or gnome as a normal user. Starting kde
> as root works fine. (note X is running fine. Using failsafe xterm mode keeps
> X up and running)
> 
>     startkde: Starting up...
>     DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-776' to 'kded'
>     startkde: Shutting down...
>     klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
>     startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
>     startkde: Done.
> 
> Starting startkde from the failsafe xterm gives the same error message.
> I cant find any more info on waht is going wrong. KDE seems to be very
> silent wheng things go wrong...
> 
> I reinstalled the whole kde set, and even went back to kde of FC5test3,
> but that does not help. Also removing the .kde tree does not help.
> 
> Any suggestions?

Right, solved it. 
I needed to remove the fontcache in ~/.rh-fontconfig

-Marcel
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