"Could not start dbus. Can you call qdbus?"

I can't log in to my regular user with KDE. I can log in as root. After I enter my password and the log in continues, a small windows opens and says "Could not start D-bus. Can you call qdbus?" I'm using 14.2 64bit.

I'm not sure what exactly I changed when I last logged in a couple of days ago. I did install Miniconda the last time I logged in. I had no issues with KDE at that point.

I searched for some possible solutions. One asked what's in /usr/bin/startkde:

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#!/bin/sh # # DEFAULT KDE STARTUP SCRIPT ( 4.11.22 ) # if test "x$1" = x--failsafe; then KDE_FAILSAFE=1 # General failsafe flag KWIN_COMPOSE=N # Disable KWin's compositing export KWIN_COMPOSE KDE_FAILSAFE fi # When the X server dies we get a HUP signal from xinit. We must ignore it # because we still need to do some cleanup. trap 'echo GOT SIGHUP' HUP # we have to unset this for Darwin since it will screw up KDE's dynamic-loading unset DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE # in case we have been started with full pathname spec without being in PATH bindir=`echo "$0" | sed -n 's,^\(/.*\)/[^/][^/]*$,\1,p'` if [ -n "$bindir" ]; then qbindir=`$bindir/kde4-config --qt-binaries` qdbus=$qbindir/qdbus case $PATH in $bindir|$bindir:*|*:$bindir|*:$bindir:*) ;; *) PATH=$bindir:$PATH; export PATH;; esac else qdbus=qdbus fi # Check if a KDE session already is running and whether it's possible to connect to X kcheckrunning kcheckrunning_result=$? if test $kcheckrunning_result -eq 0 ; then echo "KDE seems to be already running on this display." xmessage -geometry 500x100 "KDE seems to be already running on this display." > /dev/null 2>/dev/null exit 1 elif test $kcheckrunning_result -eq 2 ; then echo "\$DISPLAY is not set or cannot connect to the X server." exit 1 fi # Boot sequence: # # kdeinit is used to fork off processes which improves memory usage # and startup time. # # * kdeinit starts klauncher first. # * Then kded is started. kded is responsible for keeping the sycoca # database up to date. When an up to date database is present it goes # into the background and the startup continues. # * Then kdeinit starts kcminit. kcminit performs initialisation of # certain devices according to the user's settings # # * Then ksmserver is started which takes control of the rest of the startup sequence # The user's personal KDE directory is usually ~/.kde, but this setting # may be overridden by setting KDEHOME. kdehome=$HOME/.kde test -n "$KDEHOME" && kdehome=`echo "$KDEHOME"|sed "s,^~/,$HOME/,"` # see kstartupconfig source for usage mkdir -m 700 -p $kdehome mkdir -m 700 -p $kdehome/share mkdir -m 700 -p $kdehome/share/config cat >$kdehome/share/config/startupconfigkeys <<EOF kcminputrc Mouse cursorTheme 'Oxygen_White' kcminputrc Mouse cursorSize '' ksplashrc KSplash Theme Default ksplashrc KSplash Engine KSplashX krandrrc Display ApplyOnStartup false krandrrc Display StartupCommands '' krandrrc [Screen0] krandrrc [Screen1] krandrrc [Screen2] krandrrc [Screen3] kcmfonts General forceFontDPI 0 kdeglobals Locale Language '' # trigger requesting languages from KLocale EOF kstartupconfig4 returncode=$? if test $returncode -ne 0; then xmessage -geometry 500x100 "kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails. The error code is $returncode. Check your installation." exit 1 fi [ -r $kdehome/share/config/startupconfig ] && . $kdehome/share/config/startupconfig # XCursor mouse theme needs to be applied here to work even for kded or ksmserver if test -n "$kcminputrc_mouse_cursortheme" -o -n "$kcminputrc_mouse_cursorsize" ; then kapplymousetheme "$kcminputrc_mouse_cursortheme" "$kcminputrc_mouse_cursorsize" if test $? -eq 10; then XCURSOR_THEME=default export XCURSOR_THEME elif test -n "$kcminputrc_mouse_cursortheme"; then XCURSOR_THEME="$kcminputrc_mouse_cursortheme" export XCURSOR_THEME fi if test -n "$kcminputrc_mouse_cursorsize"; then XCURSOR_SIZE="$kcminputrc_mouse_cursorsize" export XCURSOR_SIZE fi fi . krandrstartup if test "$kcmfonts_general_forcefontdpi" -ne 0; then xrdb -quiet -merge -nocpp <<EOF Xft.dpi: $kcmfonts_general_forcefontdpi EOF fi dl=$DESKTOP_LOCKED unset DESKTOP_LOCKED # Don't want it in the environment ksplash_pid= if test -z "$dl"; then # languages as resolved by KLocale, for the splash screens use # klocale_languages is assembled by kdostartupconfig4 calling KLocale KLOCALE_LANGUAGES="$klocale_languages" export KLOCALE_LANGUAGES # the splashscreen and progress indicator case "$ksplashrc_ksplash_engine" in KSplashX) ksplash_pid=`ksplashx "${ksplashrc_ksplash_theme}" --pid` ;; KSplashQML) ksplash_pid=`ksplashqml "${ksplashrc_ksplash_theme}" --pid` ;; None) ;; Simple) ksplash_pid=`ksplashsimple "${ksplashrc_ksplash_theme}" --pid` ;; *) ;; esac # no longer needed in the environment unset KLOCALE_LANGUAGES fi # Source scripts found in <localprefix>/env/*.sh and <prefixes>/env/*.sh # (where <localprefix> is $KDEHOME or ~/.kde, and <prefixes> is where KDE is installed) # # This is where you can define environment variables that will be available to # all KDE programs, so this is where you can run agents using e.g. eval `ssh-agent` # or eval `gpg-agent --daemon`. # Note: if you do that, you should also put "ssh-agent -k" as a shutdown script # # (see end of this file). # For anything else (that doesn't set env vars, or that needs a window manager), # better use the Autostart folder. libpath=`kde4-config --path lib | tr : '\n'` for prefix in `echo "$libpath" | sed -n -e 's,/lib[^/]*/,/env/,p'`; do for file in "$prefix"*.sh; do test -r "$file" && . "$file" done done # Set the path for Qt plugins provided by KDE QT_PLUGIN_PATH=${QT_PLUGIN_PATH+$QT_PLUGIN_PATH:}`kde4-config --path qtplugins` export QT_PLUGIN_PATH # Activate the kde font directories. # # There are 4 directories that may be used for supplying fonts for KDE. # # There are two system directories. These belong to the administrator. # There are two user directories, where the user may add her own fonts. # # The 'override' versions are for fonts that should come first in the list, # i.e. if you have a font in your 'override' directory, it will be used in # preference to any other. # # The preference order looks like this: # user override, system override, X, user, system # # Where X is the original font database that was set up before this script # runs. usr_odir=$HOME/.fonts/kde-override usr_fdir=$HOME/.fonts if test -n "$KDEDIRS"; then kdedirs_first=`echo "$KDEDIRS"|sed -e 's/:.*//'` sys_odir=$kdedirs_first/share/fonts/override sys_fdir=$kdedirs_first/share/fonts else sys_odir=$KDEDIR/share/fonts/override sys_fdir=$KDEDIR/share/fonts fi # We run mkfontdir on the user's font dirs (if we have permission) to pick # up any new fonts they may have installed. If mkfontdir fails, we still # add the user's dirs to the font path, as they might simply have been made # read-only by the administrator, for whatever reason. test -d "$sys_odir" && xset +fp "$sys_odir" test -d "$usr_odir" && (mkfontdir "$usr_odir" ; xset +fp "$usr_odir") test -d "$usr_fdir" && (mkfontdir "$usr_fdir" ; xset fp+ "$usr_fdir") test -d "$sys_fdir" && xset fp+ "$sys_fdir" # Ask X11 to rebuild its font list. xset fp rehash # Set a left cursor instead of the standard X11 "X" cursor, since I've heard # from some users that they're confused and don't know what to do. This is # especially necessary on slow machines, where starting KDE takes one or two # minutes until anything appears on the screen. # # If the user has overwritten fonts, the cursor font may be different now # so don't move this up. # xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr # Get Ghostscript to look into user's KDE fonts dir for additional Fontmap if test -n "$GS_LIB" ; then GS_LIB=$usr_fdir:$GS_LIB export GS_LIB else GS_LIB=$usr_fdir export GS_LIB fi lnusertemp=`kde4-config --path exe --locate lnusertemp` if test -z "$lnusertemp"; then # Startup error echo 'startkde: ERROR: Could not locate lnusertemp in '`kde4-config --path exe` 1>&2 fi # Link "tmp" "socket" and "cache" resources to directory in /tmp # Creates: # - a directory /tmp/kde-$USER and links $KDEHOME/tmp-$HOSTNAME to it. # - a directory /tmp/ksocket-$USER and links $KDEHOME/socket-$HOSTNAME to it. # - a directory /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER and links $KDEHOME/cache-$HOSTNAME to it. # Note: temporary locations can be overriden through the KDETMP and KDEVARTMP # environment variables for resource in tmp cache socket; do if "$lnusertemp" $resource >/dev/null; then : # ok else echo 'startkde: Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation.' 1>&2 test -n "$ksplash_pid" && kill "$ksplash_pid" 2>/dev/null xmessage -geometry 600x100 "Call to lnusertemp failed (temporary directories full?). Check your installation." exit 1 fi done # In case of dcop sockets left by a previous session, cleanup #dcopserver_shutdown echo 'startkde: Starting up...' 1>&2 # Make sure that the KDE prefix is first in XDG_DATA_DIRS and that it's set at all. # The spec allows XDG_DATA_DIRS to be not set, but X session startup scripts tend # to set it to a list of paths *not* including the KDE prefix if it's not /usr or # /usr/local. if test -z "$XDG_DATA_DIRS"; then XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:/usr/share:/usr/local/share" else XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/share:$XDG_DATA_DIRS" fi export XDG_DATA_DIRS # Make sure that D-Bus is running # D-Bus autolaunch is broken if test -z "$DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS" ; then eval `dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session` fi if $qdbus >/dev/null 2>/dev/null; then : # ok else echo 'startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?' 1>&2 test -n "$ksplash_pid" && kill "$ksplash_pid" 2>/dev/null xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?" exit 1 fi # Mark that full KDE session is running (e.g. Konqueror preloading works only # with full KDE running). The KDE_FULL_SESSION property can be detected by # any X client connected to the same X session, even if not launched # directly from the KDE session but e.g. using "ssh -X", kdesu. $KDE_FULL_SESSION # however guarantees that the application is launched in the same environment # like the KDE session and that e.g. KDE utilities/libraries are available. # KDE_FULL_SESSION property is also only available since KDE 3.5.5. # The matching tests are: # For $KDE_FULL_SESSION: # if test -n "$KDE_FULL_SESSION"; then ... whatever # For KDE_FULL_SESSION property: # xprop -root | grep "^KDE_FULL_SESSION" >/dev/null 2>/dev/null # if test $? -eq 0; then ... whatever # # Additionally there is (since KDE 3.5.7) $KDE_SESSION_UID with the uid # of the user running the KDE session. It should be rarely needed (e.g. # after sudo to prevent desktop-wide functionality in the new user's kded). # # Since KDE4 there is also KDE_SESSION_VERSION, containing the major version number. # Note that this didn't exist in KDE3, which can be detected by its absense and # the presence of KDE_FULL_SESSION. # KDE_FULL_SESSION=true export KDE_FULL_SESSION xprop -root -f KDE_FULL_SESSION 8t -set KDE_FULL_SESSION true KDE_SESSION_VERSION=4 export KDE_SESSION_VERSION xprop -root -f KDE_SESSION_VERSION 32c -set KDE_SESSION_VERSION 4 KDE_SESSION_UID=`id -ru` export KDE_SESSION_UID XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE export XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP # At this point all the environment is ready, let's send it to kwalletd if running if test -n "$PAM_KWALLET_LOGIN" ; then env | socat STDIN UNIX-CONNECT:$PAM_KWALLET_LOGIN fi # We set LD_BIND_NOW to increase the efficiency of kdeinit. # kdeinit unsets this variable before loading applications. LD_BIND_NOW=true /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/start_kdeinit_wrapper +kcminit_startup if test $? -ne 0; then # Startup error echo 'startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation.' 1>&2 test -n "$ksplash_pid" && kill "$ksplash_pid" 2>/dev/null xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation." exit 1 fi # finally, give the session control to the session manager # see kdebase/ksmserver for the description of the rest of the startup sequence # if the KDEWM environment variable has been set, then it will be used as KDE's # window manager instead of kwin. # if KDEWM is not set, ksmserver will ensure kwin is started. # kwrapper4 is used to reduce startup time and memory usage # kwrapper4 does not return useful error codes such as the exit code of ksmserver. # We only check for 255 which means that the ksmserver process could not be # started, any problems thereafter, e.g. ksmserver failing to initialize, # will remain undetected. test -n "$KDEWM" && KDEWM="--windowmanager $KDEWM" # If the session should be locked from the start (locked autologin), # lock now and do the rest of the KDE startup underneath the locker. KSMSERVEROPTIONS="" test -n "$dl" && KSMSERVEROPTIONS=" --lockscreen" kwrapper4 ksmserver $KDEWM $KSMSERVEROPTIONS if test $? -eq 255; then # Startup error echo 'startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.' 1>&2 test -n "$ksplash_pid" && kill "$ksplash_pid" 2>/dev/null xmessage -geometry 500x100 "Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation." fi wait_drkonqi=`kreadconfig --file startkderc --group WaitForDrKonqi --key Enabled --default true` if test x"$wait_drkonqi"x = x"true"x ; then # wait for remaining drkonqi instances with timeout (in seconds) wait_drkonqi_timeout=`kreadconfig --file startkderc --group WaitForDrKonqi --key Timeout --default 900` wait_drkonqi_counter=0 while $qdbus | grep "^[^w]*org.kde.drkonqi" > /dev/null ; do sleep 5 wait_drkonqi_counter=$((wait_drkonqi_counter+5)) if test "$wait_drkonqi_counter" -ge "$wait_drkonqi_timeout" ; then # ask remaining drkonqis to die in a graceful way $qdbus | grep 'org.kde.drkonqi-' | while read address ; do $qdbus "$address" "/MainApplication" "quit" done break fi done fi echo 'startkde: Shutting down...' 1>&2 # just in case test -n "$ksplash_pid" && kill "$ksplash_pid" 2>/dev/null # Clean up kdeinit4_shutdown # KDE3 support kde3 kdeinit_shutdown 2>/dev/null kde3 dcopserver_shutdown --wait 2>/dev/null echo 'startkde: Running shutdown scripts...' 1>&2 # Run scripts found in $KDEDIRS/shutdown for prefix in `echo "$libpath" | sed -n -e 's,/lib[^/]*/,/shutdown/,p'`; do for file in `ls "$prefix" 2> /dev/null | egrep -v '(~|\.bak)$'`; do test -x "$prefix$file" && "$prefix$file" done done unset KDE_FULL_SESSION xprop -root -remove KDE_FULL_SESSION unset KDE_SESSION_VERSION xprop -root -remove KDE_SESSION_VERSION unset KDE_SESSION_UID echo 'startkde: Done.' 1>&2

Code:bash-4.3# kde4-config --qt-binaries
/usr/lib64/qt/binI'm not sure what information is necessary to diagnose and fix this problem.