Kde won't start [SOLVED]

[dougp25]

Tried installing Inkscape, it needed some dependencies and whatever.
Now when i bootup, gdm fails, and if i do a 'startx' I get thiis little XWindow that says "Kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails".

If i try apt-get upgrade, i get this error: "symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: undefined symbol: {line of gibberish, with streambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traits, version GLIBCXX_3.4"

Oof.  Lost!!  Appreciate any help.

[Bald Brick]

Tried installing Inkscape, it needed some dependencies and whatever.
Now when i bootup, gdm fails, and if i do a 'startx' I get thiis little XWindow that says "Kstartupconfig4 does not exist or fails".

If i try apt-get upgrade, i get this error: "symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: undefined symbol: {line of gibberish, with streambuf_iteratorIcSt11char_traits, version GLIBCXX_3.4"

Oof.  Lost!!  Appreciate any help.

1. Was your system fully updated before you installed Inkscape?

2. You should never ever run apt-get upgrade. On a rolling release it will sooner or later break your system. If you want to upgrade from the CLI, try

Code:

apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade

That will take care of the changing dependencies. (apt-get upgrade will upgrade your system with the latest packages but it will ignore new dependencies and it won't remove obsolete or conflicting ones.)

Edit: Here Inkscape works perfectly.

[dougp25]

Any apt-get commands return an error (the undefined sybol error) so an update from he CLI is impossible.

Apparently I wasn't fully updated, or it seems this would not have happened!  Now I am just trying to see if there is a way to save my system.

[Bald Brick]

Try this:
http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,80839.0.html

(Running both "apt-get clean" and "apt-get autoclean" seems like overkill but if that's what Tex recommends you'd better do it.)

[kjpetrie]

Undefined symbol errors mean there is an incompatibility between the application and a library it depends on. If apt-get produces that error there is nothing you can do unless you can identify and replace the library concerned manually. That's going to be an uphill struggle so I suggest you re-install.

[AS]

Undefined symbol errors mean there is an incompatibility between the application and a library it depends on. If apt-get produces that error there is nothing you can do unless you can identify and replace the library concerned manually. That's going to be an uphill struggle so I suggest you re-install.

+1 to reinstall,

although it could be possible to reinstall some packages by downloading the rpm and by doing a manual installation of the rpm,
it appear that you have at least 3 errors (possibly many others), 1 gdm fails, 2 Kstartupconfig4 lost, 3 libstdc++ symbols ...

AS

[dougp25]

Re-installed.  Nice since I have a separate / and /home, so all my files were good.
Yup, I messed something up somewhere, and trying to shoe horn in a fix was not going well!

Thanks for all who chimed in.