From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 11 13:53:16 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AD7D1065748 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:53:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1484E8FC12 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:53:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from af300wsm@gmail.com) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 25so497604wfa.7 for ; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:53:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=mZAaFfzxQtEpzfssmlbhSWTQzUoGHg1T3BnpS13+wpI=; b=g5PE+FzCG4uWbgb0nQic3V5R50fSLmqnW1Pd5c1KWK1Xltodu4Tva8Nw8R0ghTUW43Qp62b8/vPLTuNiXQleC5AmAwbuY7P585oE6fxaWWRMGIGevkgagXRaitv+fe6nyvvoWEKtYg3cMXwoCBzGgvhrnc/VoWmz/weuLDqDN4g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=NUn+EnHXT/1ZHWV9NwVsAe2gTDIo8uaL9emDrHOkzZTMoExEqydSz7+OjbmYpu7Dqz1JdZJ0pSyCObLIaouJxfH74SFRRw72n8dERgOgb3fSzPr5Zt3Fqf4fieXwPnJMflha/qzmqLtJQqpEY/3nyniMgP5CsZPJlVouuvb+z4g= Received: by 10.143.17.13 with SMTP id u13mr869878wfi.69.1207921990422; Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:53:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sniper ( [71.221.186.43]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm5615775wfc.16.2008.04.11.06.53.09 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 11 Apr 2008 06:53:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Andrew Falanga To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:52:50 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <1266dbd60804101551x7cc81bbdvcfb3891a67c4dff5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1266dbd60804101551x7cc81bbdvcfb3891a67c4dff5@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200804110752.50913.af300wsm@gmail.com> Cc: Barry Walker Subject: Re: StartKde 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: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:53:16 -0000 On Thursday 10 April 2008 16:51:03 Barry Walker wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm not sure if this is the proper place for this posting, but I am trying > to determine what is causing my KDE problems. > > Here's what I get > > u85 50 ps -ef |grep kde > bjwalker 11622 11076 0 17:45 pts/2 00:00:00 grep kde > > u85 51% startkde > xset: bad font path element (#104), possible causes are: > Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions > Directory missing fonts.dir > Incorrect font server address or syntax > startkde: Starting up... > > After about 5 minutes of waiting, thats all I get. > > I've looked around to see where else I may have kde things running and > think I've killed them all. I've also moved my .kde directory and allowed > for the build of a new one. I'm currently in a gnome session but I would > like to run KDE apps like Kile for example. > > Any help of where to start looking or things to do to help diagonose the > problem would be appreciated. > > thanks > > b > _______________________________________________ > 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" Barry, I'm not sure why but apparently the fonts incorrectly installed or missing in your X installation. Look in /etc/X11/xorg.conf to see where the system is looking for the fonts (path directives are under things like Section "Files" FontPath ........ EndSection Find where the server thinks they are and then verify that they are there. Andy