Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 08:19:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Charlie Root <root@portable.altadena.net> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/12098: KDM not config'd properly Message-ID: <199906091519.IAA00805@portable.altadena.net>
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>Number: 12098 >Category: ports >Synopsis: KDM not config'd properly >Confidential: no >Severity: critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-ports >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 9 11:20:01 PDT 1999 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Peter Carah >Release: FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386 >Organization: Altadena Internet >Environment: XFree86 + kde using kdm (gotten from packages on the conference CDROM and also from ftp.freebsd.org as of yesterday) >Description: kdm tries to invoke XBINDIR/X rather than /usr/X11R6/bin/X the string XBINDIR also appears in a setenv PATH and several other places (path to xrdb among others). This has occurred occasionally in the past and has also been fixed several times - i.e. it appears from time to time in the ports and works from time to time. The rest of kde appears to work correctly. kdm appears to ignore the XServers file. >How-To-Repeat: strings /usr/local/bin/kdm | grep XBINDIR >Fix: make sure to config kdm while config'ing the rest of kde, and make sure that XBINDIR gets set while doing so. Since this sometimes works there appears to be a configuration control problem in either the freebsd port or in the original kde sources. A workaround is to symlink xdm-config -> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config in the /usr/local/config/kdm directory; at least with this the X server gets invoked, but the path is still set incorrectly and kdm cannot exec xrdb. This is not fixed by adding an Xrdb resource to the xdm-config file - there may be a chicken+egg problem here... >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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