Fail to start KDE on init 3

[Ian Malone]

On 19/04/06, Stephen Liu <satimis at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I can't start KDE on "init 3"
>
>
> # startkde
> xsetroot:unable to open display
> xset: unable to open display
> startkde: starting
> ksplash: cannot connect to Xserver
> kdeinit: aborting.  $DISPLAY is not set
> warning: connect ( ) failed: : no such file or directory
> ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
> ERROR: couldn't attach to DCOP server !
> startkde: shutting down
> warning: connect ( ) failed :No such file or directory
> ERROR: can't contact kdeinit !
> startkde: running shutdown scripts
> startkde: done
> * * * END * * *
>
>

Why do you want to do this? (the only significant difference between
3 and 5 should be the presence of X, along with starting a desktop)
I think (but am not certain) startx first will work.

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imalone