From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 14 16:44:48 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 97BC416A412 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:44:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kdagee2@yahoo.com) Received: from web31501.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web31501.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 134DC43D55 for ; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 16:44:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdagee2@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 89431 invoked by uid 60001); 14 Oct 2006 16:44:47 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=zWPEMJzYwEV1DgVK8EZvBR0flWLiFgBEhWfFPFvVLU0DFCuKAcVIH4Pio1T/5yQ54eavQIU4+07zTJItG03RaPV5jYJBfTn1EU2dSmw9UNkc1mlcKpVgxJ1Vufg59qUFqCi5J/jr+pOW2ciirJ8TOgJiz8eXVjZUtzeIr8DuVK0= ; Message-ID: <20061014164447.89429.qmail@web31501.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [71.120.231.22] by web31501.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:44:47 PDT Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:44:47 -0700 (PDT) From: Karl Agee To: "Donald J. O'Neill" , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200610140915.57458.duncan.fbsd@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 16:44:48 -0000 --- "Donald J. O'Neill" wrote: > 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 > Don: ls -la /usr/local/bin/kdeinit -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 39876 Oct 6 01:18 /usr/local/bin/kdeinit ls -la /usr/local/bin/startkde -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11828 Oct 13 17:04 /usr/local/bin/startkde ls -la .xinitrc -rw-r--r-- 1 kdagee wheel 37 Oct 13 19:14 .xinitrc I use X all the time. I use windowmaker as my environment. Works fine. Using X.org. cat .xinitrc /usr/X11R6/bin/wmaker #exec startkde when I try starting kde I remove the # from the starkde line and put it in the wmaker line. Nothing abnormal in my .kde directory or owned by others. ls -la .kde total 8 drwx------ 3 kdagee wheel 512 Oct 13 09:30 . drwxr-xr-x 43 kdagee wheel 3584 Oct 14 09:25 .. lrwxr-xr-x 1 kdagee wheel 24 Oct 12 21:01 cache-enterprise.myhome.westell.com -> /var/tmp/kdecache-kdagee lrwxr-xr-x 1 kdagee wheel 24 Oct 12 21:59 cache-myhome.westell.com -> /var/tmp/kdecache-kdagee drwx------ 8 kdagee wheel 512 Oct 12 21:01 share lrwxr-xr-x 1 kdagee wheel 19 Oct 13 09:30 socket-myhome.westell.com -> /tmp/ksocket-kdagee lrwxr-xr-x 1 kdagee wheel 15 Oct 13 09:30 tmp-myhome.westell.com -> /tmp/kde-kdagee --Karl __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com