KDE Load Problmes

[Craig Kleski]

On Saturday 21 May 2005 01:30 pm, you wrote:
> Craig Kleski wrote:
> >On Saturday 21 May 2005 10:18 am, Warren Liddell wrote:
> >>I ran a CVSUP of my machine 2 days ago and during portupgrade the
> >>computer hung.  I restarted finished portupgrade but now KDE
> >>stalls/stops during loading at the same spot each time ..."Initalizing
> >>system Services" it sits on this part then it just stops loading is the
> >>best way to describe it.
> >>
> >>I am runnin the latest CVSUP as of about 8hrs ago with all
> >>ports/world/kernel updated. using FreeBSD5.4-STABLE ... Any help with
> >>this would be very greatly appreciated.
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> >Does KDE exit?  Do you see any error messages when X quits?  I had a
> > similar problem a few days ago.  I ended up rebuilding KDE for unrelated
> > reasons, which solved the problem.  However, my error message was about
> > the file .ICEauthority.  I suspect the file permissions were to blame. 
> > You might look into that.
>
> ironically KDE dosent exit the load screen disappears after a while and
> a grey screen is just left there untill you restart kde or computer.  I
> have seen o errors anywhere that point to anything being wrong.  I
> rebuilt kdelibs & kdebase ... where should i look for errors? .. if all
> else fails i guess a complete re-build of KDE may be in order.
>
> -rw-------   1 shinjii  shinjii    213 May 21 22:13 .ICEauthority

Since the permissions look correct, try renaming .ICEauthority then starting 
up KDE.  If that doesn't work, does /var/log/Xorg.0.log show anything 
unusual?