>   After rebuilding late last night, I am checking
> packages today. I reinstalled all tde packages on my test
> maching and started tde. I noticed 2 things immediately:
> 
> (1) there was only a black screen displayed behind the
> ksplash startup screen, not the background set in kcontol
> -> Login Manager; and
> 
> (2) ALL WINDOW DECORATION IS GONE - poof - missing??
> 
>   Here is a screenshot of the tips dialog:
> 
> http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/tde-no-decor.jpg
> 
>   I went to kcontrol -> appearance -> window
> decoration and all window decorations are listed as being
> available, but selecting one and hitting 'Apply" has no
> effect. No window decorations appear.
> 
>   I'm not sure where to begin troubleshooting this one.
> No .xsession-errors was ever created. IIRC, this is a
> tdelibs issue
> 
>   However, that is SMALL POTATOES - not starttrinity -
> doesn't start trinity :)
> 
>   The splash screen gets to the 'hard drive icon'
> (Initializing system services) chugs away for a while and
> then tde commands an xserver shutdown. Looking at the first
> shutdown, there was a complaint about no xset, xsetroot, and
> xprop. Here is the screenshot:
> 
> http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/tde-starttrinity-crash.jpg
> 
>   So I installed xorg-xset, xorg-xsetroot and
> xorg-xprop (funny, it ran fine before without them). I then
> tried starttrinity again, and it failed with the same
> behavior. (However, this time I did get a blue background
> color behind the ksplash dialog on statup) It got stuck on
> "Initializing system services" and then crashed:
> 
> http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/dl/dt/trinity/ss/tde-starttrinity-crash1.jpg
> 
>   The main issue I see is the dcopserver already
> running error - but looking at /home/david -- there is no
> .DCOPserver_tdepv__0 file. So I don't know what the heck is
> going on.
> 
>   I'm pretty much stuck on this one. Is there some
> change over the past few days that could explain this
> behavior?? Is it a change in ksyscoca or something similar
> causing the read of the old sysconfig cache to cause the
> crash? I tried deleting /var/tmp/kdecache-david and it did
> not help.
> 
>   Anybody else seeing this with last night's builds?
> 
>   How to debug and get more info??

I haven't updated from GIT in a few days. First thing I do after rebuilding and I notice unusual behavior is delete $TDEHOME/cache-$HOSTNAME/kyscoca*.

Check your xinitrc or Xsession files, depending upon from which run level you start X.

However, your output provides a clue:

ksmserver: '<wm>' missing. Are you using an old version of starttde? The newer versions start ksmserver from $PREFIX/bin/tdeinit_phase1 and no longer start ksmserver from starttde.

Why are you renaming starttde to starttrinity?

BTW, from your output, there is no need to set TDEDIRS unless you have additional directories beyond TDEDIR that contain configuration files.

Darrell