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Re: KDE3.1 fails to run from a clean install.
- From: Ralf Habacker <ralf dot habacker at freenet dot de>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2004 18:23:38 +0100
- Subject: Re: KDE3.1 fails to run from a clean install.
- References: <33F012255162604984A3F4BDA95C6EC4F12E15@mstaex1b.dsrusi.com>
- Reply-to: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
On Thursday 25 March 2004 16:39, Crescioli, Phil wrote:
> Ooops, I forgot to insert my KDE_Log File. Here it is.
>
> >Last night I did a FULL and COMPLETE download of cygwin from
> >http://kde-cygwin.sourcefroge.net
> >This morning I installed ALL of cygwin and tried to bring up KDE3.1
> >using "startx -multiwindow &".
> >KDE came up and allowed me to tweak the desktop environment, then
> >failed to load a library, etc. The log file is below. When I run KDE,
> >I have about 100MB free RAM of the 256 totall memory in my PC.
> >When the first library fails to load, I have about 60MB free RAM.
> >Is my prob not enough free memory, or do I need to tweak a file
>
> somewhere
>
> >To get KDE up and running? FYI-I only set KDE desktop environment to
>
> load >half the "eye candy" stuff during the initial setup so as not to
> have a >memory issue.
>
<snip>
> + touch /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/pcrescioli/.kde_mountchecked
> touch: creating `/cygdrive/c/Documents': Permission denied
There are spaces in your home directory. kde 3.1.4 does not like this.
try
HOME=/opt/kde3/home startx -multiwindow &