[kde-freebsd] Tomahawk Desktop: KDE 4.3.4 greeter crash

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

On Friday 18 December 2009 13:25:23 Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > On Friday 18 December 2009 12:02:49 Sagara Wijetunga wrote:
> >> When we try to run the KDE, the greeter crashes with the following
> >> message: kernel: pid 1096 (drkonqi), uid 0: exited on signal 6 (core
> >> dumped) kdm: :0[1077]: Received unknown or unexpected command -2 from
> >> greeter kdm: :0[1077]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0,
> >> code 125, signal 0
> >>
> >> Those are the last 3 lines of the /var/log/messages.
> >
> > Have you tried to debug the core file that's been generated? What if you
> > try to use KDE without KDM?
> 
> Hi Raphael
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> 1. Where does it store the core file? Not available such a core file
> under /var/crash.
I'm not sure. Check if everything's correctly configured so the core is being 
generated, and see if it's not in your home directory or the directory where 
KDM is installed.
> 
> 2. I have never used KDE without kdm. But for testing purposes I could
> try. Is there any documentation how to do a simple one?
You can just call startkde from your .xinitrc. I suggest using "exec startkde 
2>&1 | tee ~/.xsession-errors" so you also log the debugging output.