[kde-freebsd] Re: start kde fails after reboot

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Gua Chung Lim <gua.chunglim at gmail.com> writes:

>> So this time it ran fine and did not crash? Interesting.
>> How about `kdeinit4 --no-fork'?
> gua at bsdhost:~% kdeinit4 --no-fork
> Connecting to deprecated signal QDBusConnectionInterface::serviceOwnerChanged(QString,QString,QString)
> kded(1543)/kdeui (KIconLoader): Unable to find an appropriate lock to
> guard the shared cache.  This *should* be essentially impossible. :(
> kded(1543)/kdeui (KIconLoader): Unable to perform initial setup, this
> system probably does not really support process-shared pthreads or
> semaphores, even though it claims otherwise.
> kbuildsycoca4 running...
> kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed
> kded4: Fatal IO error: client killed
> kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children.
> klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
> kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
> kdeinit4: Exit.
>
> I don't actually know what kdeinit4 does.
> Both options render the rest of xterm unresponsive.
> I have to press <Alt><Ctrl><F?>.
> Then press <Ctrl>C to stop xterm.

What an interesting problem :)

So Xorg doesn't really crash, as xterm is still up?

If you don't have debug symbols for kdelibs, can you install them and
then run `gdb --args kdeinit4 --no-fork', then type 'run' and get a
backtrace with 'bt' when it crashes?