From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 30 09:35:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BDD2106566B for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 09:35:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A078FC08 for ; Wed, 30 May 2012 09:35:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mart.js.berklix.net (p5DCBD19A.dip.t-dialin.net [93.203.209.154]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id q4U9Zcan085665; Wed, 30 May 2012 09:35:39 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by mart.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q4U9ZRqH035375; Wed, 30 May 2012 11:35:28 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id q4U9YsUt082823; Wed, 30 May 2012 11:35:00 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <201205300935.q4U9YsUt082823@fire.js.berklix.net> To: "Brian W." From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Tue, 29 May 2012 22:48:20 PDT." Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 11:34:54 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd@dreamchaser.org, Jim Pazarena , FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: kde4 on 8.3 and laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 09:35:54 -0000 Hi, Reference: > From: "Brian W." > Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 22:48:20 -0700 > Message-id: "Brian W." wrote: > On May 29, 2012 10:28 PM, "Gary Aitken" wrote: > > > > On 05/29/12 22:15, Jim Pazarena wrote: > > > I had kde3 running just fine on 8.2 on my laptop. > > > > > > I have now installed 8.3 -and- kde4 on my laptop, and the kde system > > > will not work as expected. > > > > > > when I type kdm (which is at /usr/local/kde4/bin/kdm) > > > I get the expected login screen (however the mouse dies), and after I > login, > > > all I get is a small cli window in the top left corner. The mouse has > gone > > > dead, and the keyboard doesn't respond, altho there is a prompt in the > cli > > > window. > > > > > > All I can do at this point is hold the power button in to reboot. > > > If I do not try running "kdm", the normal cli works 100%, the ethernet > works, > > > and the mouse always seems alive (altho in the cli the mouse is of no > value). > > > > > > Suggestions would be very appreciated. > > > > I don't know about the mouse dieing. I'm running 9.0 and I've seen that > once or twice when first setting up X. You don't need to reboot. Do to switch to a different vty. Log in on that vty, do a ps to > find the process you used to start kdm, (ps -ax | grep kdm) and kill -TERM > that process. That should get you back to a regular prompt on the original > vty. Do to go back to that screen. > > > > Gary > > Ctr-alt-shift-backspace has also killed many a stuck x session. & you can also, from another host (perhaps also running X, so you still have full convenience/comfort :-) do an rlogin or ssh or telnet stuckhost & then do ps -laxww > /tmp/t ; vi /tmp/t look at the columns PID & PPID (parent of Process ID) ls -ltr /var/log not only to find & kill stuck stuff, but to analyse what is getting stuck, failing, & what is called from where, etc. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below not above, cumulative like a play script, & indent with "> ". Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable. Mail from @yahoo dumped @berklix. http://berklix.org/yahoo/