Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 21:54:52 -0700 From: Andriy Babiy <ABabiy@shaw.ca> To: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kdm/startkde problem after upgrade Message-ID: <200707162154.52596.ABabiy@shaw.ca> In-Reply-To: <469B73A9.8060204@cs.okstate.edu> References: <200707160052.42861.ABabiy@shaw.ca> <469B73A9.8060204@cs.okstate.edu>
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> > $ uname -a > > FreeBSD ABC.DEF.com 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 11 > > 06:07:39 PDT 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64 amd64 > > > > kdm is configured as a login manager in /etc/ttys. > > > > After upgrade to KDE 3.5.7 and X server 7.2 (that was time consuming, > > but no errors) I receive an error message on startup: > > Jul 16 00:13:10 FreeBSD-amd64 kdm-bin[792]: X server > > "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" cannot be executed > > Jul 16 00:13:10 FreeBSD-amd64 kdm-bin[789]: X server for display :0 > > can't be started, session disabled > > > > When I logged in, startkde brings another error message: > > xsetroot: unable to open display '' > > Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP. > > kbuildsycoca running... > > kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. > > There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. > > The message returned by the system was: > > > > Could not read network connection list. > > /home/andrey/.DCOPserver_FreeBSD-amd64.kde.com_NODISPLAY > > > > Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running! > > Reusing existing ksycoca > > kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' > > specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2' > > <...> > > A lot of messages of the same nature about undefined > > mimetype/servicetype. <...> > > xset: unable to open display "" > > xset: unable to open display "" > > xsetroot: unable to open display '' > > startkde: Starting up... > > ksplash: cannot connect to X server > > xprop: unable to open display '' > > kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. > > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > > ksmserver: cannot connect to X server > > ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! > > startkde: Shutting down... > > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > > Error: Can't contact kdeinit! > > startkde: Running shutdown scripts... > > > > Interesting, when I issue startx, KDE is up and running. > > I ran X -configure, and then X -config /root/xorg.conf.new as root; X > > server starts properly, so I copied new config to /etc/X11. I assume > > my problem is KDE related. Errors are about DCOP server, as I can see. > > Could anyone help me fix this problem? Thank you in advance! > > # ls -lF /usr/X11R6 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 18 08:29 /usr/X11R6@ -> /usr/local > > If yours does not look like that, then you forgot to merge /usr/X11R6 > into /usr/local, which by the looks of the first message (Jul 16 > 00:13:10 FreeBSD-amd64 kdm-bin[792]: X server "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" cannot > be executed) is exactly what has happened. As of Xorg 7, X11BASE is now > /usr/local rather than /usr/X11R6, so the Xorg servers will not be at > /usr/X11R6/bin. Read the Xorg 7.2 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING. > Specifically, there is a tool (mergebase.sh) included to make the merge > step extremely easy. Yes. Sure. Thank you. Perhaps I was too sleepy. My fault. Everything is OK. Andriy
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