From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 12 17:01:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA26671 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 17:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gateway.whtech.com (user61.usr2.accesscom.com [205.226.158.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA26666 for ; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 17:01:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@whtech.com) Received: from digerati (digerati.whtech.com [10.1.0.2]) by gateway.whtech.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA07765; Sat, 12 Sep 1998 17:07:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from don@whtech.com) From: "Don O'Neil" To: , Subject: KDE Crashing Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1998 17:01:29 -0700 Message-ID: <000401bddea9$a8e8a4a0$0200010a@digerati.whtech.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: <199809121456.JAA05053@detlev.UUCP> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG First off I'd like to thank all those who helped me w/ my KDE problems... it did indeed turn out to be a path issue and fully resolving the path in the .Xsession file cleared it right up. However, I'm experiencing quite a few crashes and hangs while running KDE... I've narrowed it down to being KDE (or something with it) itself, as when I run QVWM and all sorts of apps I don't have this problem. I get core dumps when running the file browser, mail program, and other programs, and occasionally all the windows just dissapear. Sometimes the whole window manager just freezes.... Are there known compatibility problems/bugs in the 1.0 release of KDE? My hardware is as follows: Cyrix M2-200 CPU Shuttle Hot 557 MB w/ 512 K Cache 64 MB EDO RAM NCR 810 SCSI card w/ 3 2 GB HDD's Toshiba CDROM, Microsoft Intelimouse S3 Virge DX 4 MB PCI video SB 16 USR 33.6 Modem Pretty generic setup. Like I said, everything works great except when I run KDE. Don > >> However, as soon as I change the window manager in the Xsession file > >> to be KDE (startkde, kwm, ANYTHING with KDE) XDM doesn't launch it, > >> rather it goes back to the login screen. There isn't anything I can > >> do to get it out of this nasty loop, exept to log in, comment out > >> the ttys entry and reboot. > > Look at ~/.xsession-errors to see why KDE isn't launching. I would > > suspect that /usr/local/bin is not in xdm's path. > > And the workaround (sorry I forgot to mention this) is to explicitly > specify the the path to kwm (ie, /usr/local/bin/kwm) in the script > you're using. > > Please send followups to -questions, where this thread should have > started. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message