Edward,
I believe that this problem was discussed on the kde-freebsd mailing list.
The simple answer to your problem is that there appears to be a defect in KDE
that causes this to occur. I had ( what I believe to be ) the same problem
as you, and when I got it running within an xterm I discovered that KDE
expects the /tmp/.ICE-unix/ directory tree to be owned by root. I fix this
problem using the following ( not very efficient ) method:
1. Attempt a KDE login ( which will create all the .ICE-unix directories
before failing )
2. Login as root using the failsafe session and issue the command
chown -R root /tmp/.ICE-unix
in an xterm
3. Log out of the failsafe session
4. Log back as the original user
I do it this way because it's easier for my wife and kids to use the computer
by logging in via KDM rather than giving them a shell login. Since my
machine doesn't get rebooted very often this is not a drama for me ;)
Hope this helps...Geoff
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 01:10 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Message: 9
> Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 23:00:36 +0100
> From: Edward Lichtner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: How do I get KDM to launch KDE ?
> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
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> Hi,
> I selected KDM to run at startup by editing /etc/ttys :
> ttyv8 �/usr/local/bin/kdm �nodaemon� xterm on secure
> I also created a .xsession file both in /root and in my home directory with
> the line :
> exec startkde
> When I reboot, KDM starts up but when I login (correct password), the login
> windows disappears, the KDM background remains and KDE doesn�t start.
> However, KDE starts fine when I run startx in a terminal session.
> Is there something I didn�t do properly ?
> Thanks,
> Edward
>
> BTW, I use FreeBSD 5.3, Xorg 6.7.0-9, KDE 3.3.0-4
>
Geoff Glasson
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