Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:43:14 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: "Tom Stuart" <freebsdemail@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE 4 Cannot run as regular user Message-ID: <44tzblhojx.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <5cdef660810072258o67330470n9b1f92a160716cfa@mail.gmail.com> (Tom Stuart's message of "Tue\, 7 Oct 2008 23\:58\:14 -0600") References: <5cdef660810072258o67330470n9b1f92a160716cfa@mail.gmail.com>
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"Tom Stuart" <freebsdemail@gmail.com> writes: > I just installed KDE4 via ports and am getting errors upon attempting > to start as a "regular" user. When I run startkde as root it works > fine but I don't want to use root on this machine. > > Error Generated when started as a regular user > $ startx > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXau.so.6" not found, required by "xauth" > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXau.so.6" not found, required by "xauth" > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXau.so.6" not found, required by "xauth" > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXau.so.6" not found, required by "xauth" > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXau.so.6" not found, required by "xauth" > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libX11.so.6" not found, required by "xinit" > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXau.so.6" not found, required by "xauth" > > The files are there > $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libXau.so /usr/local/lib/libX11.so > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Oct 6 03:09 /usr/local/lib/libX11.so -> > libX11.so.6 > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Oct 6 03:06 /usr/local/lib/libXau.so -> > libXau.so.6 > $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1080722 Oct 6 03:09 /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10604 Oct 6 03:06 /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 > > $ cat .xinitrc > exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD xxx.xxx.net 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #2: Mon Oct > 6 02:45:38 MDT 2008 root@xxx.xxx.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx > i386 > > I'm sure this is a very little issue but I appreciate your patience > and help in resolving this issue. I'll guess the problem isn't related to KDE, but to X in general. Can you start twm as your local user? With a minimal .xinitrc file? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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