From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 16 18:47:42 2005 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 BC45516A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:47:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq3.home.nl (smtpq3.home.nl [213.51.128.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA24C43D3F for ; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:47:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=44395 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq3.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DMsKT-0008OT-0P for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:47:41 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.215.228]:58296 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1DMsKR-0002NE-FM for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:47:39 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 20:47:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200504161944.52060.danny@ricin.com> <200504161057.29811.krinklyfig@spymac.com> In-Reply-To: <200504161057.29811.krinklyfig@spymac.com> X-Face: "0Qv=,p:+]LvuqrtS4U\z3k"qN=.1]@=?utf-8?q?=258=3F=3BPoab=23v=27F=7E=0A=09!Wm=5Fe-=24=7EL=5D=3B?=>[c*L^Qoladj)x@mH}Bqz"vLO?Zdl}[@V@=?utf-8?q?U=3Fx3=23lI=3A=0A=09=24DN=7E!Hr?=@K`-mNv"zXm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504162047.16730.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Subject: Re: KDE not starting. Cannot start kdeinit 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: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 18:47:42 -0000 > > 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. > > I don't use KDE as a desktop a lot (though I do use KMail and some other > apps), but I've always had exec startkde in my .xinitrc when I want to > use the whole KDE, and I've never run into any problems like the OP > described. In fact, I've never heard anyone advise what you did. Not to > doubt you, but I don't see the connection, as it's never been an issue > for me. Do you have a reference for this? > IIRC exec used to be needed for some reason, but that's been a while, merely startkde (which is just a shell script) will do. I agree that this doesn't explain OP's problem, but copying over xinit to .xinitrc and editing is not a great way to get started. Anyway, there must be a reason why kdeinit returns non-zero in startkde, and my first thought would be to run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/kdelibs.sh to make sure it can find the libraries it needs. (or reboot) HTH, Dan