[SOLVED] KDE will not start, not sure if I set it up correctly

I installed ArchLinux today and I've been looking through the Wiki to get things setup.
In the Desktop Enviornment page it says to install the Xorg server first before installing an enviornment, so I installed xorg-server with: pacman -S xorg-server
I edited /etc/rc.conf to include 'dbus' in the Daemon array
I installed KDE with: pacman -S kde
I edited /etc/inittab to comment out:
#id:3:initdefault:
#x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/xdm -nodaemon
and uncomment:
id:5:initdefault:
x:5:respawn:/usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
as it said to on the KDE page.
Then I restarted and used 'root' as login and all I saw was the terminal.
I'm not sure if I missed anything (I read through the KDE, Desktop Environment, Xorg, and DisplayManager pages) or if I just did something wrong.
Any help would be appreciated, thank you!
Last edited by harsha (2012-08-04 00:51:26)

First, you shouldn't try to login to X as root. Login as your user.
Also, I'd suggest following the beginners guide through testing TWM to make sure you've installed X correctly before you try to get KDE running.
After you've made it through those two steps (or if either fails), come back with the error messages or output you get in the attempt.

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Tested FCP: launched with no problems.
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PIM layer, which provides an asynchronous API to access all kind of PIM data
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:: Replace kdeplasma-applets-networkmanager with extra/kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement? [Y/n] Y
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Last edited by Nibble (2010-02-09 16:57:24)

Sounds like a good reason, as when I do pacman -Ss akonadi it shows up.
EDIT: when speaking of which, it works.
But:
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
kdelibs: /usr/share/apps/cmake/modules/FindKDevPlatform.cmake exists in filesystem
should I just delete it(the file)? I have kdevelop installed along side cmake.
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The same is also the case for the slideshow and weather backgrounds. I've got 'kdeplasma-addons-wallpapers-weather' installed, but could not find any package relating to wallpaper or slideshow.
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Iirc, arch tries to use vanilla (default) settings, and only patches stuff if it would cause major problems not to.
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Ha! I too have experienced no (major) problems, but I still read arch-dev-public and watch out for any messages on updates

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I've just installed Arch... again. I decided to go for KDE this time. I installed kde-meta-kdebase, have graphics drivers (xf86-video-intel) and everything. When I've try to run it by startx ("exec startkde" in my .xinitrc, copied from /etc/skel - everything done like always), the process ends after short blink of the screen. No error output now but before reboot it prompted "startkde: no such file or directory" - now no error message but it won't run anyway... there is /usr/lib/kde on my system but when I go
# systemctl enable kdm.service
- again: no such file or directory... it's like it's not installed the right way but pacman sees it. It was the same yesterday and I thought I just forgot about something so today I went step-by-step with Beginner's Guide... and still nothing. Only thing that is different from the usual system is zsh. Test xorg DE starts fine.
Last edited by smsware (2014-03-13 02:08:48)

I had kde-meta-kdebase installed but now I see that
sms-linux% sudo pacman -S kdebase
[sudo] password for root:
:: There are 11 members in group kdebase:
:: Repository extra
1) kde-wallpapers 2) kdebase-dolphin 3) kdebase-kdepasswd
4) kdebase-kdialog 5) kdebase-keditbookmarks 6) kdebase-kfind
7) kdebase-konq-plugins 8) kdebase-konqueror 9) kdebase-konsole
10) kdebase-kwrite 11) kdebase-plasma
Enter a selection (default=all):
it's not there by default. Is it a mistake by packager that it wasn't pulled by any of the packages and it's not listed there too? "Minimal install" section of Arch Wiki article about KDE is now invalid and it wasn't like that before... I just went here to type that "I don't know why but after installing some other kde packages, the problem dissapeared" - now I know why, thanks! :-)

Workflows Do Not Start - "Not Supported in Windows Authentication Mode"

I have a publishing site that is using Kerbos authentication. Everything on the site works fine.
I created a simple workflow in SPD 2013 and published this to the site without any problems. However when I try to start the workflow with the account of a user who is a member of the site it will not run. In the browser an alert pop's up
saying "Something went wrong. To try again, reload the page and then start the workflow again".
In the SharePoint log's I find the following:
SharePoint Server Workflow Services aj5oh Exception System.NotSupportedException: Not supported
in Windows authentication mode. at Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPIdentityContext.Create(SPUserToken token, Boolean isShareByLinkGuestUser) at Microsoft.SharePoint.WorkflowServices.WorkflowServiceContextExtensions.GetApplicationUserCredentials(WorkflowServicesContext
context) StackTrace: at Microsoft.Office.Server.Native.dll: (sig=1f86b0bf-2440-4b16-9099-860a571153c2|2|microsoft.office.server.native.pdb, offset=131CE) at Microsoft.Office.Server.Native.dll: (offset=21C85) 799af29b-db87-0034-c938-8a35e4082ffc
This is a dev environment where everthing is setup on a single box, and I registered the workflow service in HTTP mode (which I allowed during the installation of workflow manager).
Any ideas on what the problem might be?
Thanks,
Richard

You haven't changed it to Claims there, you have changed NTLM to Kerberos. I guess your web app was already claims based because in SP 2013 we have to use Powershell to convert classic to claims and not from GUI.
When I click the workflow on a item to start in manually I get the error:
"Something went wrong. To try again, reload the page and then start the workflow"
In ULS I get the not supported exception.
It seems 2013 platform workflows aren't supported in classic mode web applications:
http://sharepointconnoisseur.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/sharepoint-2013-upgrade-preparation-to.html
But I am not able to publish 2010 mode workflows in the classic web application, SPD 2013 throws error while publishing:
"Unexpected error on server, wf cannot be associated"
So does Infopath while publishing on to a list in that web application:
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Not sure if I set this up correctly.

I purchased an external hard drive from the apple store. They said all I had to do was to plug it in and it would back up my computer without me needing to do anything. They didn't have one set up in the store so that they could show me.
It does hum along but I decided to look at it (clicked on the TM icon) to make sure that my photos were being backed up and I don't see them. I have them all in iphoto. When TM is opened, the iphoto icon is dimmed.
Did I miss something? Am I supposed to make folders on the ehd for the photos and my files to back up into?
thanks in advance for your help.
Karen

Welcome to the discussion area, Karen!
It sounds like you may have confused Time Capsule with Time Machine.
Time Capsule is a backup device and Time Machine is a software program to allow your computer to make backup copies on most drives.
If you have an external drive (not a Time Capsule) attached to your computer, you can use Time Machine to backup your computer.
Open System Preferences and click on Time Machine. You will select the name of the hard drive that you have attached to your computer for backups.
Time Machine will make a complete copy of your computer on its first backup, so this may take several hours depending on how much data you have on your computer. After that, Time Machine will backup any changes that you have made on your computer each hour automatically. It consolidates these hourly backups into daily backups and daily backups into weekly backups so you can literally go "back in time" using Time Machine to a prior date and see how your computer looked at that time.
If you accidentally delete a file today, you can always go back a few days to when the file was still on your computer and then "restore" it to the present.
For more info on Time Machine, see this Apple Support Document. Since this is the Time Capsule forum, you should direct future questions to the Time Machine Forum.

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