startkde: cannot start kdeinit. Check your installation

[Donald J. O'Neill]

On Friday 13 October 2006 20:11, Karl Agee wrote:
> 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #4: Mon Oct  2
> 08:40:06 PDT 2006
>
> I cannot start kde.  Installed kde 3.5.4 from pkg_add
> -r kde and everything installed fine.  I put in my
> ~/.xinitrc file:
>
> startkde
>
> but I keep getting this error:
>
> /usr/local/bin/startkde: permission denied
> startkde: could not start kdeinit.  check your
> installation
>
> I have changed the entry in .xinitrc to :
> exec startkde
> # and to
> /usr/local/bin/startkde
>
> with the same results.  I also cannot start kde as
> root, I get the same thing.
>
> kdeinit is:
>
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  39876 Oct  6 01:18
> /usr/local/bin/kdeinit
>



>
> I have tried changing permissions on kdeinit but with
> the same result.  I have also removed the kdebase
> package and reinstalled it, but with the same results.
>
>
> I've searched everywhere and have seen the same
> problems posted with different OS's and versions of
> kde but nothing solid as to solutions.
>
> anybody got any ideas?
>
>

chmod 555 /usr/local/bin/kdeinit
permisions should also be 555 for startkde

You may have some other files permission problems.

Don


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