Bug 173693

Summary: kde hangs during "setting up interprocess communication" at start-up
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Andreas Petzold <andreas.petzold+kdebugs>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: crash CC: mail
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: RedHat Enterprise Linux   
OS: Linux   
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Description Andreas Petzold 2008-10-27 18:22:58 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 3.5.10)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    RedHat RPMs

I'm working on a RHEL4 clone with the KDE 3.5.10 rpms from kde-redhat installed.

When I start a new KDE session either from gdm or via startx, the splash screen comes up, but it doesn't advance any further then "Setting up interprocess communication". Eventually, the splash screen will go away, leaving only a blue background - that's it. I have to restart X to get out.

I've made an strace of the kde start-up:

http://tinyurl.com/6j7rvj

Other users of 3.5.10 on RHEL4 have reported the same problem. On RHEL5 3.5.10 works-for-me (TM).

I've seen similar problems reported in the past like https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109843 but all the hints given didn't help in my case.

Please let me know, what can I can do to help track this down.

Cheers,

Andreas
Comment 1 George Kiagiadakis 2008-10-27 18:38:14 UTC 
Is your loopback ("lo") interface up? I remember once I had the same problem and I solved it by "ifconfig lo up"
Comment 2 Andreas Petzold 2008-10-28 10:24:20 UTC 
lo is up on this machine.
Comment 3 Andreas Petzold 2008-11-25 10:35:53 UTC 
Installing new kdelibs that contain the fix referenced below solved the problem.

http://www.nabble.com/KDE-3.5.10-hangs-on-startup!-td19258284.html
Comment 4 George Kiagiadakis 2008-11-25 11:21:46 UTC 
Ok, this patch is applied to svn, so this is fixed. See http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=859452