Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 18:28:45 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> To: Peter McMahan <peter_mcmahan@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDM problems on fresh install of 5.3 Message-ID: <20041224181713.E4053@familysquires.net> In-Reply-To: <20041224220609.34328.qmail@web41603.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041224220609.34328.qmail@web41603.mail.yahoo.com>
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A couple of problems that might cause this have been discussed recently in the freebsd-kde mailing list. One of them involved not having the correct KDE startup files in /usr/local/share/config/kdm (where kdmrc lives, apparently) and another had to do with commands in the shell startup scripts failing (such as user .profile or system /etc/profile). I've also seen this happen when a previous attempt to start X failed and left trash in the user's home directory and in the /tmp directory. I think the command to create the kdm startup files is "genkdmconf"; however, there are no associated man pages with it but it should be documented on the kde.org Web site. Mike Squires On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Peter McMahan wrote: > Hi, > I just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Dell Latitude, and > installation went without a hitch. While trying to > configure KDM for graphical login, though, I ran into > some problems. > startx works fine as both root and as a regular user. > However, when I run KDM and enter my username and > password all that loads is another instance of KDM. > This is very frustrating. The same issue occurs when I > try XDM, so I think the problem is with BSD and not > KDE.
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