From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 31 6:25:11 2002 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 A3B8137B401 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B161D43E3B for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 06:25:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mailing_lists@devzerog.com) Received: from devzerog.com ([80.4.0.140]) by mta02-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020731123041.NNXG290.mta02-svc.ntlworld.com@devzerog.com>; Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:30:41 +0100 Message-ID: <3D47D88B.3080504@devzerog.com> Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:31:07 +0100 From: Dev Zero G Ltd User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ian Barnes , questions Subject: Re: kde 3 and freebsd 4.6 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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 Tried it - same result. I'm logged in as an existing user and the .xinitrc with "/usr/local/bin/startkde" is in my home dir. Any other ideas? Thanks, Mike Ian Barnes wrote: > Hi, > > Are you running X as root ? just add "exec startkde" to your .xinitrc > > Hope that helps > Ian Barnes > > ------------------------- > BOFH - Mom's Pharmacies > Email - ian@cerebellum.za.net > ------------------------- > > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Dev Zero G Ltd > Sent: 31 July 2002 01:19 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: kde 3 and freebsd 4.6 > > > Hello everybody! > > 1. Installed and configured Xfree86 4 (works) > 2. Installed KDE3 on FreeBSD 4.6.1 > 3. added "/usr/local/bin/startkde" to ~/.xinitrc > > When I run "startx" I get: > > giving up. > xinit: No such file or directory (errno 2): unable to connect to X Server > xinit:No such process (errno 3): Server error. > > Starting X first and then manually KDE3 works.. > > The strange thing is that a seto almost exactly (??) the same on another > machine works. > > What could this be?! > > Many thanks in advance for any help! > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message