Fail to start KDE

Stephen Liu satimis at icare.com.hk
Sun Feb 22 07:47:34 PST 2004


Hi all folks,

Version 5.2
new installation

I encountered problem in starting KDE after installation.

1)
KDE installed
pkg_info | grep kde
kde-3.1.4 The "meta-port" for KDE
kdeaddons-3.1.4 Additional plugins and scripts for some KDE applications
kdeadmin-3.1.4 KDE applications related to system administration
kdeartwork-3.1.4_1 Additional themes, sounds, wallpapers and window 
styles for
kdebase-3.1.4 This package provides the basic applications for the KDE sy
kdeedu-3.1.4 Collection of entertaining, educational programs for KDE
kdegames-3.1.4 Games for the KDE integrated X11 desktop
kdegraphics-3.1.4 Graphics utilities for the KDE3 integrated X11 desktop
kdelibs-3.1.4_1 This is the base set of libraries needed by KDE programs
kdemultimedia-3.1.4 Multimedia utilities for the KDE integrated X11 desktop
kdenetwork-3.1.4 Network-related programs and modules for KDE
kdepim-3.1.4 Personal Information Management tools for KDE
kdesdk-3.1.4 KDE Software Development Kit
kdetoys-3.1.4 Small applications for KDE
kdeutils-3.1.4 Utilities for the KDE integrated X11 desktop
kdevelop-2.1.5 Powerful IDE for developing KDE/Qt-based apps

2)
/home/user/.xinitrc file not found

ls -al /home/user/
total 22
drwxr-xr-x 2 satimis wheel 512 Feb 23 05:58 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Feb 23 07:16 ..
-rw------- 1 satimis wheel 0 Feb 23 05:58 .Xauthority
-rw-r--r-- 1 satimis wheel 767 Feb 23 07:16 .cshrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 satimis wheel 248 Feb 23 07:16 .login
-rw-r--r-- 1 satimis wheel 158 Feb 23 07:16 .login_conf
-rw------- 1 satimis wheel 373 Feb 23 07:16 .mail_aliases
-rw-r--r-- 1 satimis wheel 331 Feb 23 07:16 .mailrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 satimis wheel 797 Feb 23 07:16 .profile
-rw------- 1 satimis wheel 276 Feb 23 07:16 .rhosts
-rw-r--r-- 1 satimis wheel 975 Feb 23 07:16 .shrc
-rw------- 1 satimis wheel 106 Feb 23 05:58 .xsession-errors

3)
cat /home/user/.xsession-errors
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
Error: Can't open display: :0

Kindly advise how to fix the problems.

TIA

B.R.
satimis


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