Frequently Encountered Problems

From The Chakra Project

Frequently Encountered Problems Here you will find a list of the most usual problems users have with Chakra, and how to solve them.

Contents 1 Error: Could not start kstartupconfig4. Check your installation. 2 KDM rejects login / KDE doesnt start up but sends you back to KDM 3 KDM doesn't restart on logout but just send you to a black screen 4 Newly installed Applications/Plasmoids don't show in KDE 5 System monitor plasmoids are not working after upgrade 6 Strigi service failed to initialize, most likely due to an installation problem

Error: Could not start kstartupconfig4. Check your installation.

If you experience this error while trying to login via KDM, try the following advices:

• Verify that KDE starts via startx (uncomment the exec startkde entry in ~/.xinintrc)
• Verify that you have installed the correct packages for your architecture (i686 = 32Bit, x86_64 = 64Bit)
• Maybe the permissions of /tmp and /var/tmp are not correct, try the following:

  sudo chmod 1777 /tmp /var/tmp

• It could be that some permission in your home directory are broken, try to fix them with:

  sudo chown -R YOUR_USERNAME:YOUR_GROUP ~

• Try a fresh configuration. Move ~/.kde4, ~/.kdemod4, ~/.config and ~/.local to another place or delete it, then try again.
• Also try to create a fresh user and try to login with it.
• It could be that your KDE paths are messed up somehow. Check /etc/profile.d if there are any KDE-related files and delete them (they are not needed anymore since KDE is in /usr). Also check the contents of the files in /etc/profile.d if there are any KDE-related entries. Reboot after doing these changes.

This is a configuration issue. A re-installation of Chakra always solves this problem.

KDM rejects login / KDE doesnt start up but sends you back to KDM

• You need to have the hal daemon in the DAEMONS array in /etc/rc.conf.
• Don't start hal backgrounded.
• Maybe you are experiencing this bug. Running these commands could solve it:

  sudo groupadd -g 81 dbus

  sudo useradd -u 81 -G dbus -d '/' -s /bin/false dbus

• Some of the Chakra testing ISO/LiveCD's have desktop effects enabled by default, that might not be compatible with your specific graphics card. Use KDE:failsafe to login, disable desktop effects in System Settings > Desktop Effects. On reboot, it is possible again to login with default. Try enabling desktop effects you'd like to use one by one, to see which one is incompatible.

KDM doesn't restart on logout but just send you to a black screen

This is most probably a graphics driver issue. To solve it, uncomment and/or set the following line in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc:

TerminateServer=true

Newly installed Applications/Plasmoids don't show in KDE

Run:

kbuildsycoca4

System monitor plasmoids are not working after upgrade

If system monitor plasmoids are not working (and no devices in settings) try rebooting computer.

Strigi service failed to initialize, most likely due to an installation problem

You need a java runtime environment for soprano, either jre or openjdk. The default (which works out of the box) is openjdk.

• To use openjdk:

  pacman -S openjdk6

• To use jre:

  pacman -Rd openjdk6 (if installed)

  pacman -S jre

  then add /opt/java/jre/lib/i386/server/ to your /etc/ld.so.conf and run ldconfig.