unable to contact KDED

[ovince]

Hi,

I have Mageia 5 on 64bit machine and KDE 4.14.

When I try to run Service Manager (System Setings > Startup and Shutdown > Service Manager) I get error message "unable to contact KDED". For all services stands "Not running".

Could you help me to solve this issue

Thanks
oliver

[doktor5000]

Hi there, which media did you use to install Mageia, and what login manager do you use? You can see some examples for comparison at https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Display_Managers
Also, how do you start KDE? And did you install regular Mageia updates?

And please show the output of

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ps auxwww|grep -v grep|grep -iE "kdm|kdeinit|kded|ksmserver"

[isadora]

Hi,

Thank for reply. I am not sure I know answer to all questions ...

Login manager is KDM and I do regular updates. Please clarify "which media did you use to install Mageia" and "how do you start KDE" questions.

This is the output

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root      1212  0.0  0.0  24664  2204 ?        Ss   08:57   0:00 /usr/bin/kdm -nodaemon
ovince    2253  0.0  0.0   4116    84 ?        S    08:57   0:00 /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/start_kdeinit +kcminit_startup
ovince    2254  0.0  0.5 389424 36012 ?        Ss   08:57   0:00 kdeinit4: kdeinit4 Running...
ovince    2279  0.0  0.9 674112 54656 ?        Sl   08:57   0:00 kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]
ovince    2288  0.0  0.4 393224 25612 ?        S    08:57   0:00 kdeinit4: klauncher [kdeinit] --fd=9
ovince    2402  0.0  0.5 478128 35940 ?        S    08:58   0:00 kdeinit4: kglobalaccel [kdeinit]
ovince    2458  0.0  0.0   4252   696 ?        S    08:58   0:00 kwrapper4 ksmserver
ovince    2465  0.0  0.6 563180 38964 ?        Sl   08:58   0:00 kdeinit4: ksmserver [kdeinit]
ovince    2621  1.3  1.9 3126556 115060 ?      Sl   08:58   0:04 kdeinit4: plasma-desktop [kdeinit]
ovince    2720  0.2  1.0 734972 61972 ?        Sl   08:58   0:00 kdeinit4: krunner [kdeinit]
ovince    2727  0.0  0.8 715604 49108 ?        Sl   08:58   0:00 kdeinit4: kmix [kdeinit] -session 1019913a1691c800014478565890
ovince    3537  7.5  0.8 576444 49128 ?        Rl   09:03   0:00 kdeinit4: konsole [kdeinit]

[doktor5000]

For the other questions, my question was about which installation media you used, and if you use KDM to start KDE that question is also answered for now.

Output looks good so far. Could it be that you are trying to start one of the KDE5 / Plasma5 tools instead of systemsettings?
Please start systemsettings as your regular user from a terminal, then go to Startup and Shutdown > Service Manager as seen in https://userbase.kde.org/System_Setting ... ce_Manager
and check again. Then post the complete output from the terminal here. Please also mention if that Service_Manager looks the same as the one you are starting directly from start menu.

[ovince]

sorry for long silence.

The problem remains the same via both approaches 1. systemsettings from command line and 2. Start>System Settings>Start and Startup>Service Manager. I attach the image of how it looks like (even the PrintScreen command does not work so this is a cell-phone image ... )

[img]/home/ovince/Desktop/KDED.jpg[/img]

[ovince]

not sure how to attach images to post?

[doktor5000]

Below the forum editor (only available in Full editor, not via quick reply), switch to the tab "Upload attachment".
Upload your picture, then when finished, click in the editor window where you want your picture to display, and click the button "Place inline".

[ovince]

KDED.jpg (154.23 KiB) Viewed 3387 times

[doktor5000]

If you create a new user, and login as that user, does it work then? http://doc.mageia.org/mcc/5/en/content/userdrake.html

[ovince]

I didn't try yet. But it works some time after restart and thereafter the same.

[doktor5000]

Well, best thing to do would be to quit the automatically started kded, and run it in a terminal to see why it stops to work at some point. maybe it crashes.
As regular user, try this:

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killall kded4; sleep 2; kded4

and then keep the terminal open in the background until kded stops working, then post the complete output here.
If you close the terminal, kded will also be ended.

[ovince]

this is the only output after the command series

Object::connect: No such signal QDBusAbstractInterface::StateChanged(uint)

At least I have no message "Unable to contact KDED" and the only service which run is 'Network Status'

[doktor5000]

So now

keep the terminal open in the background until kded stops working, then post the complete output here.

[ovince]

I will pay attention to this part and let you know.