Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 16:01:52 +0200 From: Alberto Villa <avilla@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Moellering <mark@msen.com> Cc: kde-freebsd@kde.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [kde-freebsd] problems with Policykit in KDE4.3 on Freebsd 8 amd64 Message-ID: <AANLkTimHHQ9_9ehj9Lcp7hYnQW5NgHJJiclEwnIphEm8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4C2C96D8.5000902@msen.com> References: <4C2C96D8.5000902@msen.com>
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On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Mark Moellering <mark@msen.com> wrote: > Apologies for the cross posting. > I recently did a fresh install of Freebsd 8 , amd64. > I then added Xorg and KDE (4.3) from the sysinstall packages system. > > I read about policykit, which seems really cool. I set-up PolicyKit in > the KDE systems settings and things worked great (adding USB drives), > until I rebooted. > Now it doesn't really work. It seems to me that even though KDE saved > my settings, it isn't initializing something at boot or login. > Does anyone know what needs to be done? Do I need to use kdm? Add a > line to rc.conf? I am pretty good at Freebsd but getting KDE4 > subsystems working is still a little mysterious. hello! a fix for (console|policy)kit related issues was committed two weeks ago. you need to upgrade your kde, and yes, you need to use kdm or gdm to use policykit (there is a howto on http://wiki.freebsd.org/KDE4 - at least i guess... the wiki doesn't work at the moment) -- Alberto Villa, FreeBSD committer <avilla@FreeBSD.org> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~avillahelp
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