From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 31 17:47:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from transbay.net (dns1.transbay.net [209.133.53.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B91037B405 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:47:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from borges.codysbooks.com (stalwart.codysbooks.com [209.133.54.175]) by transbay.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id fA11lNq99536 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:47:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 17:48:05 -0800 From: Scott Reese To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: KDE 2.2.1 refuses to cooperate Message-Id: <20011031174805.7da868db.sreese@codysbooks.com> Organization: Cody's Books X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.6.3 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello all, I've searched high and low through the archives and on google to find a solution for my problem, but none of the suggested solutions worked. The problem I'm having is this: KDE will not start up properly. I get the initialization screen and it hangs on "initializing system settings." After letting it sit there for a while, I have to kill it with ctrl-alt-F1 and then zap all the lame kdeinit processes. The two error messages that always come up are "kio(KDirWatch):KDirWatch: Can't use fam!" and "KUniqueApplication:DCOP communication error!" I checked and portmapper is running (for fam), I have added "sgi_fam/1-2 stream rpc/tcp wait root /usr/local/bin/fam fam" to inetd.conf and "sgi_fam 391002 # file alteration monitor" is in /etc/rpc. Yes, I did remember to hup inetd after adding the entry for fam, so it *should* be running. I have absolutely no idea what to do about the DCOP problems, though. Nothing seems to be working. If it matters, I'm run! ning XFree86 4.1.0_7 on 4.4-Stable. I know I'm not the only one to have experienced these problems in the last month and I suspect I won't be the last! Thank you in advance for any advice you can offer me. Please cc me in the reply as I'm not currently subscribed to this list. Thank you, Scott To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message