Guys, After rebuilding with the current svn tree, I am getting startkde and kinit library errors: X.Org X Server 1.9.4 Release Date: 2011-02-04 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.37-ARCH i686 Current Operating System: Linux supersff 2.6.37-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Feb 11 16:55:18 UTC 2011 i686 Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda6 ro Build Date: 04 February 2011 09:39:45PM Current version of pixman: 0.20.2 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Fri Feb 18 10:38:49 2011 (==) Using config directory: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d" [startkde] Starting startkde. [startkde] KDEHOME is not set. [startkde] Set KDEHOME to /home/david/.kde3. [startkde] kdehome: /home/david/.kde3 kstartupconfig: error while loading shared libraries: libkdefakes.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory kde-config: error while loading shared libraries: libkdecore.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [startkde] KDEDIR: /opt/trinity/ [startkde] KDEDIRS: /opt/trinity/:/usr/ [startkde] kdedirs_first: /opt/trinity/ [startkde] Starting Trinity... ksplash: error while loading shared libraries: libksplashthemes.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [startkde] KDE_FULL_SESSION: true [startkde] KDE_SESSION_UID: 1000 /opt/trinity/bin/kdeinit: error while loading shared libraries: libkparts.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [startkde] Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation. [startkde] kdeinit started successfully. [trinity kinit] Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory ksmserver: error while loading shared libraries: libkdeinit_ksmserver.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory dcop: error while loading shared libraries: libDCOP.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [startkde] Shutting down Trinity... [trinity kinit] Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory [trinity kinit] Error: Can't contact kdeinit! artsshell: error while loading shared libraries: libsoundserver_idl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [startkde] Running Trinity shutdown scripts... [startkde] Trinity shutdown complete. xinit: connection to X server lost waiting for X server to shut down This is occurring with at least the following range of svn revisions: 10:48 supersff:~/arch/tpkg> ls -1 i686-new trinity-arts-1214641-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz trinity-kdebase-1221326-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz trinity-kdelibs-1220926-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz trinity-kdevelop-1216516-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz trinity-kdewebdev-1216789-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz trinity-tqtinterface-1221148-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz and 10:49 supersff:~/arch/tpkg> ls -1 i686-pam/ trinity-kdebase-1221507-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz trinity-kdelibs-1220926-1.1-i686.pkg.tar.xz Let me know what else I can send to help debug. It's not just a result of -DWITH_PAM, because the packages above (i686-new directory) were built without pam enabled. So this is from at least kdelibs 1220926 or kdebase 1221326 (I don't know which package is to blame) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.