KDE not starting. Cannot start kdeinit

[edward]

Guys,
Everything points to a missing package or a packages compatibility issue. I
know this isn't an intellectually satisfying way out, but since this is a
rencently installed machine, I reinstalled the system (just like when
Windows screwsŠ) and installed Xorg 6.7.0 and KDE-base 3.3.0 through pkg_add
and KDE starts fine. I guess KDE 3.3.0 doesn't like Xorg 6.8.2 that much.
Thanks for your input, anyway.
Edward


> Message: 29
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:44:51 +0200
> From: Danny Pansters <danny at ricin.com>
> Subject: Re: KDE not starting. Cannot start kdeinit
> To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <200504161944.52060.danny at ricin.com>
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> On Saturday 16 April 2005 19:06, Edward Lichtner wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I just installed FreeBSD (using a CD burned from the
>> 5.3-RELEASE-i386-miniinst.iso image) on a NEC machine with a Celeron D335.
>> I have xorg 6.8.2 (upgraded via portupgrade) and KDE 3.3.0 (installed via
>> Internet as binaries, with pkg_add, after upgrading xorg).
>> I then created an .xinitrc file by copying from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit
>> into my home directory and adding exec startkde at the beginning of the
>> file, after the first few lines.
>> When I type startx, xorg starts OK, but I then get "Could not start
>> kdeinit. Check your installation".
>> Kdeinit is in /usr/local/bin and the kdelibs package is installed and
>> recognised by pkg_info.
>> Any idea what went wrong ?
> 
> You shouldn't copy xinit and you shouldn't use 'exec' to run startkde. Just
> put only 'startkde' (without the quotes) in your ~/.xinitrc instead.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Dan