Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:38:14 +0800 From: Geoff Glasson <g_glasson@wiredcity.com.au> To: lichtner@9online.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 89, Issue 20 Message-ID: <200502251338.14575.g_glasson@wiredcity.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050225051042.CCB7616A57A@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20050225051042.CCB7616A57A@hub.freebsd.org>
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Edward,
I believe that this problem was discussed on the kde-freebsd mailing list.
The simple answer to your problem is that there appears to be a defect in K=
DE=20
that causes this to occur. I had ( what I believe to be ) the same problem=
=20
as you, and when I got it running within an xterm I discovered that KDE=20
expects the /tmp/.ICE-unix/ directory tree to be owned by root. I fix this=
=20
problem using the following ( not very efficient ) method:
1. Attempt a KDE login ( which will create all the .ICE-unix directories=20
before failing )
2. Login as root using the failsafe session and issue the command
chown -R root /tmp/.ICE-unix
in an xterm
3. Log out of the failsafe session
4. Log back as the original user
I do it this way because it's easier for my wife and kids to use the comput=
er=20
by logging in via KDM rather than giving them a shell login. Since my=20
machine doesn't get rebooted very often this is not a drama for me ;)
Hope this helps...Geoff
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:10 pm, freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org wrote:
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:00:36 +0100
> From: Edward Lichtner <lichtner@9online.fr>
> Subject: How do I get KDM to launch KDE ?
> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Message-ID: <BE440D14.22C6%lichtner@9online.fr>
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>
> Hi,
> I selected KDM to run at startup by editing /etc/ttys :
> ttyv8 =B3/usr/local/bin/kdm =ADnodaemon=B2 xterm on secure
> I also created a .xsession file both in /root and in my home directory wi=
th
> the line :
> exec startkde
> When I reboot, KDM starts up but when I login (correct password), the log=
in
> windows disappears, the KDM background remains and KDE doesn=B9t start.
> However, KDE starts fine when I run startx in a terminal session.
> Is there something I didn=B9t do properly ?
> Thanks,
> Edward
>
> BTW, I use FreeBSD 5.3, Xorg 6.7.0-9, KDE 3.3.0-4
>
Geoff Glasson
g_glasson@wiredcity.com.au
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