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Re: KDE3.1 fails to run from a clean install.


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 &


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