From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 18:23:20 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 7767416A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:23:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 160F443D39 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:23:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from owen.g@onlinehome.de) Received: from [212.227.126.179] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BxrZF-0001fz-00; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:23:17 +0200 Received: from [217.235.108.90] (helo=[192.168.1.250]) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1BxrZE-0003wE-00; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:23:17 +0200 Message-ID: <4124F0DF.3090903@onlinehome.de> Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:26:39 +0200 From: "Owen.G" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040616 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ciprian Badescu References: <4124BAAE.6020308@gonwanda.com> <20040819173335.L20695@elvis.mrc.alcatel.ro> In-Reply-To: <20040819173335.L20695@elvis.mrc.alcatel.ro> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:4e7b6bfadbfaa9d59ebe2d9dce9eb48d cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDEInit could not launch 'kmail' 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: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:23:20 -0000 Ciprian Badescu wrote: > Hi, > > > Search for libkdeprint.so.x or libkdeprint.so and make a symblic link from > libkdeprint.so.5 to that file. It's an ugly trick, but should work. > > -- > Ciprian Badescu > > On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Owen Gardiner wrote: > > >>Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:35:26 +0200 >>From: Owen Gardiner >>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >>Subject: KDEInit could not launch 'kmail' >> >>I've installed KDE 3.23 on a machine running 5.21-release-p9 which has >>x116.7 from X.ORG installed. >> >>I try to start kmail and get a message window of: >>"KDEInit could not launch 'kmail'" >> >>If I copy the command properties of the kmail icon and run it from the >>command line: >> >>kmail -caption "%c" %i %m >> >>I get the reply: >> >>/libexec/ld-elf.so1: Shared object "libkhtml.so.5" not found >> >>Ditto when trying to run "kedit" >>from the command like I get: >>/libexec/ld-elf.so1: Shared object "libkdeprint.so.5" not found >> >>Everything on the machine has been installed from "ports". >> >>I've tried to do portupgrades and pkgdb -uf and portsdb-Uu but apart >>from seeing that some packages are ignores, some are skipped and one >>fails I'm none the wiser. >> >>I've reinstalled kde to see if I've managed to do some harm whilst using >> pkgdb -F. I "may" have wrongly answered some questions about "stale >>dependencies" when using it. >> >>Help? >> >>Thanks in anticipation. >> >>Owen >> >>P.S. I've searched the freebsd mail archives to no avail. >>_______________________________________________ > > Cheers, There's LOTS of files not found. I don't understand it as I've tried a portupgrade I have made 20 or so links so far. I'll try portupgrade with a few more switches thrown in for good measure as I can now see which port needs upgrading (kdelibs-323_1)! Trying portupgrade -k and it seems to be doing the trick. I wonder why it failed or skipped the kde* ports without the "-k" switch. Thanks Owen ====