From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 17 16:48:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21C4F16A4CE for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:48:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 929AF43D41 for ; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:48:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F5946130; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:48:17 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 54976-09; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:48:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (unknown [63.117.97.221]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2141360F3; Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:48:04 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41EBEC3B.7030606@makeworld.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:47:55 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Smith References: <20050117111737.GB5301@internode.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050117111737.GB5301@internode.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE issues after upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:48:19 -0000 Adam Smith wrote: >Recent activities: > > o CVSup of Ports > o portupgrade -Oar > >Hmm perhaps I shouldn't have specified the O, because my KDE is broken. >Quite broken! I've reinstalled it by adding in ALL of the options, just to >make sure nothing got missed, and besides perhaps deinstalling all of the >KDE packages and starting again. > >What happens is, upon loading of KDE from KDM, just after "Initializing >Peripherals", it backs out with no error and Xorg reloads. > >I see no errors in /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log or any other >logs I cared to look at. > >I moved my ~/.kderc and ~/.kde directories elsewhere to clean out my >profile but to no avail; KDE still fails in the same spot. Other >windowmanagers (WindowMaker) work fine. > >Anyone got any suggestions as to what I might try to resolve this problem? > > > > When ever you pull off a cvsup of the ports tree, you MUST, again - MUST read /usr/ports/UPDATING to view additional instructions, issues, etc. That should be the 2nd thing you do. 1st being the actual cvsup. Read that file and see if anything pops out at you. KDE has never really been a to-the-point upgrade. There have always been gotcha's. -- Best regards, Chris PGP Fingerprint = D976 2575 D0B4 E4B0 45CC AA09 0F93 FF80 C01B C363