From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 23 14:47:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7DC16A4CE for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:47:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rader.servnow.com (rader.servnow.com [69.93.129.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A511843D46 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:47:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from 12-202-252-157.client.insightbb.com ([12.202.252.157] helo=familysquires.net) by rader.servnow.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.42) id 1CAUsS-0006S4-R4; Thu, 23 Sep 2004 10:47:21 -0400 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 09:47:23 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" X-X-Sender: mikes@familysquires.net To: Michael Nottebrock In-Reply-To: <200409070535.41248.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Message-ID: <20040923094632.C564@familysquires.net> References: <20040907003621.GA25864@internode.com.au> <20040907031726.GA78148@internode.com.au> <200409070535.41248.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-PopBeforeSMTPSenders: mikes@siralan.org X-Antivirus-Scanner: Clean mail though you should still use an Antivirus X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - rader.servnow.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - siralan.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: cc: Chris Laverdure cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Adam Smith Subject: Re: xorg & KDE 3.3 startup issues in 5.3 BETA3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:47:26 -0000 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