Bug 74154 - "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation and try again."
Summary: "Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation and try again."
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Debian stable Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2004-02-04 19:19 UTC by Andrew Schulman
Modified: 2004-02-04 20:51 UTC (History)
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Description Andrew Schulman 2004-02-04 19:19:19 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.2.0)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages
OS:          Linux

I have KDE 3.2, under Debian testing/unstable.  I wiped clean my previous installation of KDE 3.1 (apt-get --purge, rm -rf /etc/kde3) and reinstalled from the .deb's at download.kde.org.

Whenever any user logs into a session from KDE, a window pops up that says:

Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.

Another user has reported on comp.windows.x.kde today that he sees the following error message:

kdeinit: relocation error: /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3: undefined symbol:
FT_Seek_Stream
startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.

I haven't seen this, but it's consistent with the error messages on my box.

A discussion from October 2003 on debian-kde discussed this same error, and linked it to some problems with libxrender, which were supposedly solved:  http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2003/debian-kde-200310/threads.html#00145.  I don't know if the same cause is at work here.
Comment 1 Stephan Kulow 2004-02-04 20:51:11 UTC 
this is an installation problem. Contact debian-kde or the debian packager directly