Problem in Starting KDE

[Sean M.]

I run FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE. About a week ago, I made the egregious
mistake of deleting the '/var/db/pkg' directory, so I had no choice but
to portmanager everything back (I build from ports). This wasn't
actually so bad since I didn't have CXXFLAGS configured the first time,
so at least now I would get optimized binaries (as an aside,  are '-O9
-march=athlon-xp -mfpmath=sse' the best options for a Duron(TM)
~1000MHz?).

But now, I am having major problems starting KDE (3.5.3):
1) When I run 'startx' from the shell, the screen "clicks" into video
mode, I see the X black-and-white wallpaper for an instant, then it
turns black with the 'X'-mouse (it's responsive), and stays that way
forever, until I kill X. I captured the tty output: 

======================================================================
xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.7480
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "Compy:0" in "list"
command
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (stdin):1:  bad display name "Compy:0" in "add"
command


X Window System Version 6.9.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.1 i386 [ELF] 
Current Operating System: FreeBSD Compy 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
#1: Tue Jul  4 20:39:59 PDT 2006    
root at Compy:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/MYKERNEL i386
Build Date: 14 July 2006
        Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org
        to make sure that 
you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon Jul 17 19:20:23 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP.
kbuildsycoca running...
# N.B. this is where the screen switches. The following lines come
# only after killing X.
kdeinit: Shutting down running client.
FreeFontPath: FPE "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" refcount is 2,
should be 1; fixing.
/usr/X11R6/bin/xinit:  connection to X server lost.
Hangup
GOT SIGHUP
/usr/X11R6/bin/xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "Compy:0" in "remove"
command
xset:  unable to open display ":0"
startkde: Starting up...
kdeinit: Shutting down running client.
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 7531, errno = 22
Terminated
startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.
Terminated
startkde: Shutting down...
Terminated
unix_connect: can't connect to server
(unix:/tmp/ksocket-root/Compy-114e5-44b7aac1)
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.
======================================================================

2) I can start X with 'xinit', and this is fine. I can then issue
'kdeinit', which gives a ton of "kbuildsycoca: WARNING: foo specifies
undefined mimetype/servicetype bar" lines. Then I can do 'kwrapper
ksmserver&', and that'll give me the familiar window frames, but not
any aspect of the desktop.


Does anyone have any advice?

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