From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 17 23:20:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F220F106566B for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:20:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A89808FC12 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:20:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m7HNKAQx003958; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:20:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:20:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:19:59 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Michael Powell Message-ID: <20080817231959.GB3376@thought.org> References: <20080817220431.GA1187@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kde troubles.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:20:05 -0000 On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:12:27PM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > > # kdm > > > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. > > Try deleting that file and reboot if you are starting kdm in ttys. > > If that by itself doesn't work there are a number of other files to clean as > well, but they don't come into play until after kdm is running and you are > attempting to start a KDE session as a particular user. > nojoy. the err message is gone, but KDE creates an /rmpty kdm.pid and does nothing. stdout says "Information: reading current kdmrc ..... \n" and then: "Infirmation: current kdmrc is from kde 3.1 ....." Nothing else; what else neeeds cleaning? thanks. gary > -Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org