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Subject: ports/12098: KDM not config'd properly
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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:


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