kdm/startkde problem after upgrade

[Reid Linnemann]

Written by Andriy Babiy on 07/16/07 02:52>>
> Hi everyone!
> 
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD ABC.DEF.com 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 11 06:07:39 
> PDT 2007     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64  amd64
> 
> kdm is configured as a login manager in /etc/ttys.
> 
> After upgrade to KDE 3.5.7 and X server 7.2 (that was time consuming, but 
> no errors) I receive an error message on startup:
> Jul 16 00:13:10 FreeBSD-amd64 kdm-bin[792]: X server "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" 
> cannot be executed
> Jul 16 00:13:10 FreeBSD-amd64 kdm-bin[789]: X server for display :0 can't 
> be started, session disabled
> 
> When I logged in, startkde brings another error message:
> xsetroot:  unable to open display ''
> Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP.
> kbuildsycoca running...
> kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
> There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The 
> message returned by the system was:
> 
> Could not read network connection list.
> /home/andrey/.DCOPserver_FreeBSD-amd64.kde.com_NODISPLAY
> 
> Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running!
> Reusing existing ksycoca
> kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' 
> specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2'
> <...>
> A lot of messages of the same nature about undefined mimetype/servicetype.
> <...>
> xset:  unable to open display ""
> xset:  unable to open display ""
> xsetroot:  unable to open display ''
> startkde: Starting up...
> ksplash: cannot connect to X server
> xprop:  unable to open display ''
> kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set.
> Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
> ksmserver: cannot connect to X server
> ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
> startkde: Shutting down...
> Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
> Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
> startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
> 
> Interesting, when I issue startx, KDE is up and running.
> I ran X -configure, and then X -config /root/xorg.conf.new as root; X 
> server starts properly, so I copied new config to /etc/X11. I assume my 
> problem is KDE related. Errors are about DCOP server, as I can see.
> Could anyone help me fix this problem? Thank you in advance!
> 
> Andriy
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# ls -lF /usr/X11R6
lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  10 Jun 18 08:29 /usr/X11R6@ -> /usr/local

If yours does not look like that, then you forgot to merge /usr/X11R6 
into /usr/local, which by the looks of the first message (Jul 16 
00:13:10 FreeBSD-amd64 kdm-bin[792]: X server "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" cannot 
be executed) is exactly what has happened. As of Xorg 7, X11BASE is now 
/usr/local rather than /usr/X11R6, so the Xorg servers will not be at 
/usr/X11R6/bin. Read the Xorg 7.2 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING. 
Specifically, there is a tool (mergebase.sh) included to make the merge 
step extremely easy.