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Date:      Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:19:59 -0700
From:      Gary Kline <kline@thought.org>
To:        Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kde troubles....
Message-ID:  <20080817231959.GB3376@thought.org>
In-Reply-To: <g8a7kl$eha$1@ger.gmane.org>
References:  <20080817220431.GA1187@thought.org> <g8a7kl$eha$1@ger.gmane.org>

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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
>   
> 
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