[kde-freebsd] broke my kde, any hints?

Michael Nottebrock lofi at freebsd.org
Sun Feb 11 17:35:00 CET 2007


Helge Rohde schrieb:
> I recently portupgraded kdebase3 which produced the problem. By now i have de- 
> and reinstalled the whole kde stuff, including kdelibs; Problem still 
> persists. Since i have been unable to find some kind of startup log for kde 
> and are not very familiar with the kde boot process / architecture at all i 
> am a little lost as to what i could do to get back a working kde.
>
> Starting kde from kdm yields a less then detailed errormsg:, something 
> like 'could not start kdeinit - check your installation'.
>
> I also tried:
> %start_kdeinit 
> /usr/local/bin/start_kdeinit: Exec format error. Binary file not executable.
>
> and here's a script from startkde:
> TRABANT# startkde
>   
                   ^
Shell prompt looks like you're logged in as root?

> xsetroot:  unable to open display ''
>   
There is no DISPLAY environment variable set. Are you running startkde
from a console without X even running? This cannot work. You can run
startkde from an xterm in a failsafe X session (or even from within
enlightenment).


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