[kde-freebsd] Re: kde4 fails to start after update.

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

On Thursday 11 November 2010 10:52:56 Mike Barnard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have upgraded to KDE4-4.5.1 and all its modules and cannot seem to
> startup KDE, I get the following error:
> 
> Starting kdm4.
> Updating KDM configuration
> Information: reading pre-existing kdmrc
> /usr/local/kde4/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (config version 2.4)
> Warning: Do not know how to create missing GreeterUID user kdm
> ...
> ...
> kdm-bin: :0[1763]: Received unknown or unexpected command -2 from greeter
> kdm-bin: :0[1763]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 1,
> signal 0
> 
> Anyone experienced this?
> 
> :: Attached is my Xorg log file. I removed my xorg.conf file just to make
> 
> sure that it was not causing this.

As Alex said, please try starting KDE without KDM to see if that works; 
furthermore, you should give the latest stable release, 4.5.3, a try.