KDE

[epilogue]

On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 00:05:24 -0500
"Teilhard Knight" <teilhk at crosswinds.net> wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I just installed FreeBSD 4.10, and everything went all right. I typed:
> "startx", and I could enter KDE and do some tweakings. Then I shut down
> and rebooted, and something happened I cannot enter KDE, nor as a root or
> as a user anymore. I get the message:

do you have any clue about what 'tweakings' you might have done?  did you
touch /etc/ttys or the 'kern_securelevel' settings in /etc/rc.conf?  making
certain changes to either of these can seriously hamper your ability to use
X.

> "X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)"

though it sounds as though X was working, another possibility is that your
XF86Config is misconfigured, thus broken.  how did you set-up X?  during
the install or after with xf86config?

please check/var/log/XFree86.0.log for error messages.  i'm pretty sure
that you'll see something that will point you in the right direction.

if you think that it is X that is 'broken', please have another look at the
handbook section on X:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html

if you think that it was one of your 'tweaks', please let us know what you
did, so that we can help you undo it.

> Does it mean I'll have to re-install?

almost certainly not.  we just need to figure out what happened.


hth,
epi

> After install I just had to
> re-enter my root password and sign me up as a user again, because the
> install didn't keep those settings. That's why I shut down and rebooted,
> to test if everything was all righ then.

> All help will be appreciated.
> 
> Teilhard.
> 
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