From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 14 01:52:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5748916A412 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:52:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duncan.fbsd@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4447C43D46 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:52:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duncan.fbsd@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so1314655pye for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:52:14 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=LZXRzowa/PNv6EbJi9fyjX9GozgpEI5CtNPeJjvb8Noh5aT7vLAlqyLRfC115vYrJq694LUhEGkcMt0yMAemetp/iMmAmaomka+OFzvn1/usTBJGKCfE6TZIrETZIydVVOszF6N1S2cutuEaYvaa6iGko92S2cmoinBtbDASYgM= Received: by 10.35.82.15 with SMTP id j15mr6969427pyl; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:52:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pres1750.airedalians.com ( [75.7.74.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id q37sm2553152pye.2006.10.13.18.52.13; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:52:14 -0700 (PDT) From: "Donald J. O'Neill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 20:52:11 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20061014011142.48689.qmail@web31501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061014011142.48689.qmail@web31501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610132052.12263.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> Cc: Karl Agee Subject: Re: startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 01:52:49 -0000 On Friday 13 October 2006 20:11, Karl Agee wrote: > 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct 2 > 08:40:06 PDT 2006 > > I cannot start kde. Installed kde 3.5.4 from pkg_add > -r kde and everything installed fine. I put in my > ~/.xinitrc file: > > startkde > > but I keep getting this error: > > /usr/local/bin/startkde: permission denied > startkde: could not start kdeinit. check your > installation > > I have changed the entry in .xinitrc to : > exec startkde > # and to > /usr/local/bin/startkde > > with the same results. I also cannot start kde as > root, I get the same thing. > > kdeinit is: > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 39876 Oct 6 01:18 > /usr/local/bin/kdeinit > > > I have tried changing permissions on kdeinit but with > the same result. I have also removed the kdebase > package and reinstalled it, but with the same results. > > > I've searched everywhere and have seen the same > problems posted with different OS's and versions of > kde but nothing solid as to solutions. > > anybody got any ideas? > > chmod 555 /usr/local/bin/kdeinit permisions should also be 555 for startkde You may have some other files permission problems. Don > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"