Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:44:51 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE not starting. Cannot start kdeinit Message-ID: <200504161944.52060.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <BE8712C0.267E%elichtner@wanadoo.fr> References: <BE8712C0.267E%elichtner@wanadoo.fr>
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On Saturday 16 April 2005 19:06, Edward Lichtner wrote: > Hi all, > I just installed FreeBSD (using a CD burned from the > 5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso image) on a NEC machine with a Celeron D335. > I have xorg 6.8.2 (upgraded via portupgrade) and KDE 3.3.0 (installed via > Internet as binaries, with pkg_add, after upgrading xorg). > I then created an .xinitrc file by copying from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit > into my home directory and adding exec startkde at the beginning of the > file, after the first few lines. > When I type startx, xorg starts OK, but I then get "Could not start > kdeinit. Check your installation". > Kdeinit is in /usr/local/bin and the kdelibs package is installed and > recognised by pkg_info. > Any idea what went wrong ? You shouldn't copy xinit and you shouldn't use 'exec' to run startkde. Just put only 'startkde' (without the quotes) in your ~/.xinitrc instead. HTH, Dan
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