Re: Unable to start KDE4 on freebsd 7.4-RELEASE


On Jun 5, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote:

Mathew,

On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Matthew Navarre <mnavarre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
I updated my FreeBSD box from 6.4 to 7.4 using freebsd-update, got my installed ports in order and updated and installed/updated kde4-4.6.3 and all its dependancies. Xorg works ( i can run twm successfully), but trying to start kde bombs out. It looks like kded is barfing trying to get a a lock on the shared cache. Everything's up to date as of a portsnap fetch this morning. Output from startx follows. Hopefully someone can help, as I'm out of ideas.

Thanks,
mnavarre.

Script started on Sun Jun 5 13:42:25 2011
startx
xauth: file /home/mnavarre/.serverauth.59871 does not exist


X.Org X Server 1.7.7
Release Date: 2010-05-04
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: FreeBSD 7.4-RC3 i386
Current Operating System: FreeBSD reichlieu.lan 7.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.4-RELEASE #0: Thu Feb 17 03:51:56 UTC 2011 root@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
Build Date: 28 May 2011 10:30:45PM

Current version of pixman: 0.21.4
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sun Jun 5 13:42:25 2011
(==) Using default built-in configuration (30 lines)
(EE) Failed to load module "fbdev" (module does not exist, 0)
expected keysym, got XF86TouchpadToggle: line 123 of inet
kbuildsycoca4 running...
kbuildsycoca4(59915) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry MimeType in ".hidden/kommander.desktop" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).
startkde: Starting up...
Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
kded(59942)/kdeui (KIconLoader): Unable to find an appropriate lock to guard the shared cache. This *should* be essentially impossible. :(
kded(59942)/kdeui (KIconLoader): Unable to perform initial setup, this system probably does not really support process-shared pthreads or semaphores, even though it claims otherwise.
<snip>

startkde: Shutting down...
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
kde3: not found
kde3: not found
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
startkde: Done.

waiting for X server to shut down


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I can see that startx might be looking for kde 3, the line :

kde3: not found
kde3: not found


I was wondering about that myself, but KDE has never been installed on this machine until now. I thought I'd gotten all the old KDE cruft rm'ed from $HOME
and you have kde 4.6.3 latest and greatest.

Question:
Do you have
exec startkde in ~/.xinitrc

or

exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde in ~/.xinitrc

The kde4 line is in ~/.xinitrc

Because the first one is for kde 3 while the next one(above) is for
kde 4. If you try to create another user and the user is able to
login, then it might be a problem with the old settings?


I created a new user with an empty $HOME, added the startkde line to .xinitrc and had the same problem. I did notice that drkonqi is crashing and writing out a .core file, so I'll see if gdb can tell me anything.
Thanks,
mnavarre
Regards,

Antonio
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