From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 20 20:23:50 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 AC22616A4CE for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:23:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ALPHA9.ITS.MONASH.EDU.AU (alpha9.its.monash.edu.au [130.194.1.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69F043D45 for ; Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:23:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bawig1@student.monash.edu) Received: from localhost ([130.194.13.82]) by vaxh.its.monash.edu.au (PMDF V5.2-31 #39306) with ESMTP id <01LBESVGR4PI8X701I@vaxh.its.monash.edu.au> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:49:39 +1000 Received: from larry.its.monash.edu.au (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5444980033 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:49:39 +1000 (EST) Received: from mail2.monash.edu.aularry.its.monash.edu.au ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:49:39 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 16:49:39 +1000 From: Brett Wiggins To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Netscape Webmail Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-disposition: inline Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: en Subject: kdm and startkde 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: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 20:23:50 -0000 hello, I am having some problems with startkde and kdm. When I run startkde i get the following outpit; xset: unable to open dispaly "" xsetroot: unable to open display '' startkde: starting up... ksplash cannot connect to X server kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set Warning: connect() failed: : no such file or directory ksmserver : cannot connect to X server startkde: shutting down Warning: connect() failed: : no such file or directory Error : Can't contact kdeinit! startkde: Running shutdown scripts startkde: done When I run startx kde runs fine. When I edit /etc/ttys to enable a graphical login, kdm runs but nothing happens when I log in. The login screen is just reloaded. Any help would be great. Brett