Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:47:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: Adam Smith <adam@internode.com.au> Subject: Re: xorg & KDE 3.3 startup issues in 5.3 BETA3 Message-ID: <20040923094632.C564@familysquires.net> In-Reply-To: <200409070535.41248.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <20040907003621.GA25864@internode.com.au> <20040907031726.GA78148@internode.com.au> <200409070535.41248.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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I've run into both problems discussed on the kde-freebsd mailing list when I upgraded to Xorg and KDE 3.3 with FreeBSD 5.3-BETA (version of 9/22). Problem 1 caused the X server to fail with an error message that files like "Xstartup" could not be found; Problem 2 caused KDE to die after I tried to log in, either as root or a user. Problem 1: the files in /usr/local/share/config/kdm were removed, and I got startup errors when kdm was called by /etc/ttys. This was fixed by rerunning genkdmconf; /usr/ports/UPDATING does not specifically refer to this problem but it does refer to a related problem. Problem 2: The Xsession file created by genkdmconf contains an error which causes KDM to die if you have a line in your /etc/csh.login (or in your user .login) which calls "fortune". A patch has been posted on the kde-freebsd mailing list; I just commented out the line in /etc/login.cshrc which calls "fortune". I don't know when these two problems started, since I've been mostly doing buildworlds, buildkernels, and portupgrades -a on this fairly slow machine (and not running X). They didn't exist with 5.3-CURRENT just before 5.3-BETA when I was running XFree86 and KDE 3.2, however. Mike Squires mikes@siralan.org
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