xorg & KDE 3.3 startup issues in 5.3 BETA3
Michael L. Squires
mikes at siralan.org
Thu Sep 23 07:47:26 PDT 2004
I've run into both problems discussed on the kde-freebsd mailing list when
I upgraded to Xorg and KDE 3.3 with FreeBSD 5.3-BETA (version of 9/22).
Problem 1 caused the X server to fail with an error message that files
like "Xstartup" could not be found; Problem 2 caused KDE to die after I
tried to log in, either as root or a user.
Problem 1: the files in /usr/local/share/config/kdm were removed, and I
got startup errors when kdm was called by /etc/ttys. This was fixed by
rerunning genkdmconf; /usr/ports/UPDATING does not specifically refer to
this problem but it does refer to a related problem.
Problem 2: The Xsession file created by genkdmconf contains an error
which causes KDM to die if you have a line in your /etc/csh.login (or in
your user .login) which calls "fortune". A patch has been posted on the
kde-freebsd mailing list; I just commented out the line in
/etc/login.cshrc which calls "fortune".
I don't know when these two problems started, since I've been mostly doing
buildworlds, buildkernels, and portupgrades -a on this fairly slow
machine (and not running X). They didn't exist with 5.3-CURRENT just
before 5.3-BETA when I was running XFree86 and KDE 3.2, however.
Mike Squires
mikes at siralan.org
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