kdm/startkde problem after upgrade

Andriy Babiy ABabiy at shaw.ca
Tue Jul 17 04:54:55 UTC 2007


> > $ 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!
>
> # 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.

Yes. Sure. Thank you. Perhaps I was too sleepy. My fault. Everything is OK.
Andriy


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