From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 11 10: 7:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D934537B40A for ; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 10:07:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5BH6db4011293; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:06:39 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from doug@safeport.com) Received: from localhost (doug@localhost) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with SMTP id g5BH6cx0011290; Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:06:39 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: fledge.watson.org: doug owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 13:06:38 -0400 (EDT) From: doug X-Sender: doug@fledge.watson.org To: Tom Kersten Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5 + KDE 3's kdm....error.... In-Reply-To: <20020611061124.29560.qmail@web10007.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Try http://freebsd.kde.org and look for bugs on http://www.kde.org On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Tom Kersten wrote: > Hello, > > I am having some problems setting up kde's GUI login > manager (kdm). I am running FreeBSD 4.5 and XFree86 > 4.2. I am getting the following error when I try to > test it: > > > <--start--> > www# kdm -nodaemon > Jun 11 22:55:29 www kdm[5143]: Abnormal helper > termination, code 0, signal 81 > Jun 11 22:55:31 www kdm[5146]: Greeter exited > unexpectedly > Jun 11 22:55:31 www kdm[5146]: Abnormal helper > termination, code 1, signal 0 > Jun 11 22:55:33 www kdm[5153]: Greeter exited > unexpectedly > Jun 11 22:55:33 www kdm[5153]: Abnormal helper > termination, code 1, signal 0 > Jun 11 22:55:35 www kdm[5160]: Greeter exited > unexpectedly > Jun 11 22:55:35 www kdm[5160]: Abnormal helper > termination, code 1, signal 0 > Jun 11 22:55:37 www kdm[5167]: Greeter exited > unexpectedly > Jun 11 22:55:37 www kdm[5167]: Abnormal helper > termination, code 1, signal 0 > Jun 11 22:55:37 www kdm[5143]: Display :0 is being > disabled (restarting too fast) > <--end--> > > I have not configured anything in any files as I am > unsure of which to edit because the FreeBSD handbook > does not seem to cover KDE3, nor does the KDE.org > documentation and I am hesitant to blindly use the 2.2 > instructions. It appears that you only HAVE to edit > the /etc/ttyv file for it to work, but until I can > start it from the prompt without errors I do not want > to try to boot into it. "xdm" seems to work fine, any > ideas on why I am receiving this error with "kdm"?? > > Please reply to this email address as well as the > list, I am not a regular member to the -questions > list. > > Thank you for your time and any help you can give. > > Sincerely, > > Thomas Kersten > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup > http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message