From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 18 04:39:08 2004 Return-Path: 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 29C9716A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 04:39:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ALPHA1.ITS.MONASH.EDU.AU (alpha1.its.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516C943D2D for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 04:39:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bawig1@student.monash.edu) Received: from localhost ([130.194.13.88]) by vaxc.its.monash.edu.au (PMDF V6.1 #39306) with ESMTP id <01LBG2J28P008X0CQF@vaxc.its.monash.edu.au> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:36:47 +1000 Received: from moe.its.monash.edu.au (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B36AB542 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:36:46 +1000 (EST) Received: from mail2.monash.edu.aumoe.its.monash.edu.au ; Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:36:46 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:36:46 +1000 From: Brett Wiggins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <110ce117db.117db110ce@mail2.monash.edu.au> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Subject: startkde X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 04:39:08 -0000 hello, I am having some problems with startkde. I have looked through the mailing list archive and the handbook and am still stuck. I set up my machine to run KDE as per the handbook chapter on the X window system. When I type startx KDE runs fine, when I type startkde I get the following output; xset: unable to open display "" xsetroot: unable to open display '' startkde: starting up ksplash: cannot connect to X Server kdeinit: aborting. $DISPLAY ot set Warning: Connect() failed: :no such file or directory ksmserver: cannot connect to X server startkde: shutting down... warning: connect() failed: :no such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! startkde: running shutdown scripts startkde: done When I run kdm the login screen loads but when I log in nothing happens, The login screen is just loaded again. I think That this may have somthing to do with startkde not working. Any help would be great as I can't figure out whats going wrong. Thanks Brett