Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:33:29 -0500 From: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> To: Andriy Babiy <ABabiy@shaw.ca> Cc: FreeBSD-questions <FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: kdm/startkde problem after upgrade Message-ID: <469B73A9.8060204@cs.okstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <200707160052.42861.ABabiy@shaw.ca> References: <200707160052.42861.ABabiy@shaw.ca>
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Written by Andriy Babiy on 07/16/07 02:52>> > Hi everyone! > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD ABC.DEF.com 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 11 06:07:39 > PDT 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMD64 amd64 > > kdm is configured as a login manager in /etc/ttys. > > After upgrade to KDE 3.5.7 and X server 7.2 (that was time consuming, but > no errors) I receive an error message on startup: > Jul 16 00:13:10 FreeBSD-amd64 kdm-bin[792]: X server "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" > cannot be executed > Jul 16 00:13:10 FreeBSD-amd64 kdm-bin[789]: X server for display :0 can't > be started, session disabled > > When I logged in, startkde brings another error message: > xsetroot: unable to open display '' > Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP. > kbuildsycoca running... > kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. > There was an error setting up inter-process communications for KDE. The > message returned by the system was: > > Could not read network connection list. > /home/andrey/.DCOPserver_FreeBSD-amd64.kde.com_NODISPLAY > > Please check that the "dcopserver" program is running! > Reusing existing ksycoca > kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' > specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2' > <...> > A lot of messages of the same nature about undefined mimetype/servicetype. > <...> > xset: unable to open display "" > xset: unable to open display "" > xsetroot: unable to open display '' > startkde: Starting up... > ksplash: cannot connect to X server > xprop: unable to open display '' > kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > ksmserver: cannot connect to X server > ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server! > startkde: Shutting down... > Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory > Error: Can't contact kdeinit! > startkde: Running shutdown scripts... > > Interesting, when I issue startx, KDE is up and running. > I ran X -configure, and then X -config /root/xorg.conf.new as root; X > server starts properly, so I copied new config to /etc/X11. I assume my > problem is KDE related. Errors are about DCOP server, as I can see. > Could anyone help me fix this problem? Thank you in advance! > > Andriy > _______________________________________________ > 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" # ls -lF /usr/X11R6 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 10 Jun 18 08:29 /usr/X11R6@ -> /usr/local If yours does not look like that, then you forgot to merge /usr/X11R6 into /usr/local, which by the looks of the first message (Jul 16 00:13:10 FreeBSD-amd64 kdm-bin[792]: X server "/usr/X11R6/bin/X" cannot be executed) is exactly what has happened. As of Xorg 7, X11BASE is now /usr/local rather than /usr/X11R6, so the Xorg servers will not be at /usr/X11R6/bin. Read the Xorg 7.2 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Specifically, there is a tool (mergebase.sh) included to make the merge step extremely easy.
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