Re: Root Permission Denied

"Basil Holloway" <farl7FAKE@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Thanks for your patience, but things are not going well.
Wiped the HD and reinstalled BSD 6.2, just the basics no networking etc. Put
the user besides root into wheel during the installation.
At the first start up of the new installation, logged in as root and the
first entry was
#su
Next I did the configuration of X11 as per page 135 of the manual ( had
allways used the latest edition of the web which I printed out last week ).
The test in step 2 went fine.
Next I put in cd2 where kde is in packages and ran from within the kde
directory
#pkg_all *.tbz
During the installation there were dozens of messages saying this or that
should be or could be done but after 34 minutes was back to the # prompt
without any apparent fatal errors.
Next I created in ee, two files
.xinitrc
with
exec startkde
in both in the home of root and my user pentos.
Did a reboot and logged in as pentos but kde did not start, just got the $
prompt.
At the prompt $ startkde and got dozens of lines of errors mainly about X
and X86.
Right at the end this line came up by the screen full and finally had to
Crtc+C to stop it.
kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server: 0
tried #startkde with the same result.
Googled this, got a few hits, mostly in foreign languages and the few in
English which gave me no clue as to solving the problem. One said the line
in .xinitrc should be startkde without the word exec. Tried this but it did
not work.

I feel a basic set up step has been missed.
Any clues ?

Did you try "startx" or "xinit" from the command line?
"startkde" normally won't be run from the command line, but from the
..xinitrc (or .xsession, for display managers like kdm or xdm).

.

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