KDE fail to start after clean install F14

[Rex Dieter]

On 01/21/2011 09:48 AM, Armelius Cameron wrote:
> Hello,
> I previously had F12. I just did a clean install of F14, but I left my /home
> intact (it's on another partition). So obviously KDE files and settings
> (~/.kde) is still the old ones.
>
> When I logged in, KDE would try to start but then seems to die. X would just
> quit and give me back KDM. I can't tell what's wrong from looking at Xorg.log
> (it just say X exit unexpetedly or something like that).
>
> I tried removing ~/.kde so it would start fresh, and that works. Obviously
> that works as a backup plan: just start fresh and reconfigure all my KDE apps
> again. But if possible I want to avoid that. Any idea where I should start
> looking why things go bad ? Does KDE has its own log ?

~/.xsession-errors
is the first place to look

-- Rex