From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 16 12:28:53 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 481D316A4CF for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.184]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24F2A43D5A for ; Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:28:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from addymin@pacbell.net) Received: from unknown (HELO pacbell.net) (m?chinn@pacbell.net@63.202.83.21 with plain) by smtp805.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 16 Apr 2004 19:28:51 -0000 Message-ID: <40803431.2070504@pacbell.net> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 12:29:53 -0700 From: Mike User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: KDE crashes for 1 user but not the others? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: addymin@pacbell.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 19:28:53 -0000 Greeting: The system: FreeBSD 4.9-stable I have KDE 3.14 installed and all was working well for a number of weeks. Root and one other regular user account had been able to start and use KDE and Gnome. And both GUI environments operated normally. A few days ago KDE under root account wouldn't start (startx). Howevere KDE started under a regular user account works perfectly (and continues to do so). Furthermore, Gnome (2.4) under root starts (half-way?) up to the point of the banner and then hangs. Here is the error message produced by the KDE crash: === ERROR MESSAGE START ========== Release Date: 27 February 2003 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.9 i386 [ELF] Build Date: 07 October 2003 Before reporting problems, check http://www.XFree86.Org/ to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/XFree86.0.log", Time: Fri Apr 16 11:12:49 2004 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config" startkde: Starting up... QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used QPixmap: Cannot create a QPixmap when no GUI is being used DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-3839' to 'kded' ERROR: Communication problem with kded, it probably crashed. DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-3842' to 'knotify' ERROR: Communication problem with knotify, it probably crashed. startkde: Shutting down... KLauncher: Exiting on signal 1 startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. === ERROR MESSAGE END ========== Question: There is just ONE install of KDE so, how can this happen? Both user accounts start-up the "same" KDE right? I've tried comparing the .kde and .kderc files between the user accounts but I can't find any diffences (or I don't know what to look for). Any hints or suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Michael Chinn