From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 14 14:16:01 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 ABABF16A412 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:16:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from duncan.fbsd@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B027F43D5D for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:16:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from duncan.fbsd@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id o67so1491816pye for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:16:00 -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=FGYVV0YG2ncVbfVhcfJLyT+zfeKVc5AG+SNGJH7NJI30LZ4o9RDFUTUE/5GlssRzWnP36Pgse5SKIgLQZdYyLPrdiNAXNU3MyBZYADUUBzAtEFiIi9myMt4pZTt/U4UT7HipFprp9lSKghFv/NJfkMBzWfVu8+9S0Z8DD9kT9Xs= Received: by 10.35.94.7 with SMTP id w7mr8195529pyl; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:16:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pres1750.airedalians.com ( [75.7.74.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id m1sm1099082nzf.2006.10.14.07.15.59; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 07:15:59 -0700 (PDT) From: "Donald J. O'Neill" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:15:57 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20061014021716.69695.qmail@web31511.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20061014021716.69695.qmail@web31511.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: <200610140915.57458.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 14:16:01 -0000 On Friday 13 October 2006 21:17, Karl Agee wrote: > --- "Donald J. O'Neill" wrote: > > 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 > > Don: I did that, same exact error. > > --Karl > Karl, Try this. What do you get, now. #ls -l /usr/local/bin/kdeinit -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 39716 Sep 29 03:22 /usr/local/bin/kdeinit #ls -l /usr/local/bin/startkde -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11828 Jul 23 09:23 /usr/local/bin/startkde #ls -l .xinitrc -rw-r--r-- 1 username username 48 Sep 23 07:10 .xinitrc #cat .xinitrc exec startkde Do you have xorg installed? xorg.conf is in place and configured? What happens if you: #xdm Does x start up? Have you looked at the handbook for information on x? What about the FAQ? You have a permissions problem somewhere. Don