Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 16:48:03 -0800 (PST) From: Jeffrey Colter <dejamuse@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Corrupted files? Message-ID: <20050224004803.80445.qmail@web60802.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi all, I successfully got X11 and KDE running on FreeBSD - I'm a newbie, so I was very happy! I had the internet working and everything. First I had DHCP and then I went to a static IP behind my linksys router and Comcast, so that I could run a website from my home using Apache. Then I tried to get Apache to run but was stymied by configuration errors. Well, the last thing I did was to change the etc/rc.conf file to comment out the line that said: hostname=".comcast.net" which was previously set by DHCP (because Apache said it couldn't resolve it). Then I rebooted and all hell broke loose. I had KDM set to auto start and after putting in the password, instead of starting KDE it went back to the login screen and would never start. I then went into the shell and manually changed the rc.conf file back to the way it was and rebooted again. This time I could login but I got the blue KDE screen background and a plain white background terminal box in the lower right corner, logged in as root. I could not get KDE to start again no matter what. How could I have possibly corrupted something? Should I remove KDM and reinstall, or do X11 and/or KDE too? KDE took an entire day to compile from the ports, so I am reluctant to do that over again - would probably use the binary package. Thanx for the help! ...Jeff __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/
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