Greetings, I'm a new user, and I feel like I've done my homework on this issue but I'm rather perplexed. I don't really understand the inner workings of X and KDE and don't really know where to start to solve this problem. I installed all of the relevant KDE packages and set it to start at boot time with KDM and it worked fine initially, for a couple days. Without my changing anything in particular, the equivalent of the windows taskbar at the bottom of the screen became blank. The usual launch menu and boxes symbolizing minimized programs are gone but the bar is still there, it's just solid grey. This is true both when I login as root and as myself. It doesn't respond when I right or left click it but I can still manipulate objects on the desktop and run commands (and therefore open applications, terminals, etc.). I use a laptop, an i386, and OpenBSD 4.3 -release. Below is my .xsesssion-errors file. Thanks for any help you can give me with getting my system up, running and configured!
Evan Seitchik /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xsession: /etc/profile[8]: [: missing ] startkde: Starting up... kbuildsycoca running... Launched ok, pid = 10606 X Error: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 2 Major opcode: 116 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0xa /dev/apmctl: Permission denied kbuildsycoca running... Reusing existing ksycoca There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active... konqueror: WARNING: Unknown class in session saved data! kio (KService*): WARNING: The desktop entry file .hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop has Type=Service but is located under "apps" instead of "services" kio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : .hidden/dirfilterplugin.desktop Error: Can't add object reference (probably artsd is already running). If you are sure it is not already running, remove the relevant files: /tmp/ksocket-evan/Arts_SoundServerV2 /tmp/ksocket-evan/Arts_SoundServer /tmp/ksocket-evan/Arts_SimpleSoundServer /tmp/ksocket-evan/Arts_PlayObjectFactory /tmp/ksocket-evan/Arts_AudioManager kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/ark.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/zip' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'ark_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/x-tbz2' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'karm_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/english' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'karm_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'karm_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c++' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/firefox.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/mml' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kfile_raw.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'image/x-raw' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/kuickshow.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'image/x-psd' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/kuickshow.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'image/x-eim' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/rss+xml' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/rdf+xml' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kcertpart.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/binary-certificate' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/local/share/applications/kde/kmid.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'audio/midi' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'katepart.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-fortran' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'knotify.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'KNotify' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'ksvgplugin.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'image/svg' kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/local/share/apps/konsole/linux.desktop konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/local/share/apps/konsole/mc.desktop konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/local/share/apps/konsole/screen.desktop konsole: WARNING: Unable to use /usr/local/share/apps/konsole/sumc.desktop X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x2800005 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x2800005 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x2600005 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x2600005 warning: leaving MCOP Dispatcher and still 1 object references alive. X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1600008 ksmserver: WARNING: SmsDie timeout, client kwin(1024128a198208000122403588300000299270000) ksmserver: WARNING: SmsDie timeout, client kicker(1024128a198208000122410660200000175390003) ksmserver: WARNING: SmsDie timeout, client konqueror(1024128a198208000122404321900000035380020) ksmserver: WARNING: SmsDie timeout, client (1024128a198208000122410661600000175390009) ksmserver: WARNING: SmsDie timeout, client (1024128a198208000122410663700000175390012) ksmserver: WARNING: SmsDie WM timeout startkde: Shutting down... kicker: sighandler called klauncher: Exiting on signal 1 DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-17943' to 'konqueror-1920' DCOP Cleaning up dead connections. X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1600008 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1600008 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1600008 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1600008 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 15 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1600008 X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3 Major opcode: 20 Minor opcode: 0 Resource id: 0x1600008 ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 15729, errno = 32 startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done.