[kde-freebsd] Problems Starting KDE (3.5.3 on FreeBSD 6.1)

[Sean M.]

I am having problems with KDE. At first, 'startx' would just give me a
black screen with the X-shaped mouse cursor, and then just sit there. I
fixed this somewhat by editing /etc/hosts, and now I can start it up,
but there are still issues:

1) I can only start KDE as root. There are three users, and 'startx'
for them still won't work. (NB. my startx is the stock one that comes
with X.org 6.9 with 'startkde' added at the end.)

2) It takes an awfully long time to start up. I guess this is related
to the next point:

3) The output I get from 'startx' is:

xauth:  creating new authority file /root/.serverauth.566
### <Standard X startup message> ###
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network
socket
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network
socket
Warning: kbuildsycoca is unable to register with DCOP.
kbuildsycoca running...
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
kbuildsycoca running...
DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
Reusing existing ksycoca
### <A pagefull of kbuildsyscoa mime-type warnings> ###


4) Through the course of using various programs, I get messages written
to the tty. Here is a representative sample:

kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"PKCS7_content_free"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms_conf"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"PKCS7_content_free"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms_conf"
kio (KLauncher): ERROR: SlavePool: No communication with slave.
 kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"PKCS7_content_free"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"OPENSSL_add_all_algorithms"
kdecore (KLibLoader): WARNING: KLibrary: Undefined symbol
"OpenSSL_add_all_algorithms_conf"
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data
kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Could not write data
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
 Major opcode: 19
 Minor opcode: 0
 Resource id: 0x223dd92


5) Applications will freeze up, and I have to wait up to a few minutes
for the window to get redrawn and become responsive again.


Here are the contents of files that may be informative:

/etc/make.conf:

# added by use.perl 2006-07-14 05:33:46
PERL_VER=5.8.8
PERL_VERSION=5.8.8


/etc/resolv.conf:

search vc.shawcable.net
nameserver 64.59.144.92
nameserver 64.59.144.93


/etc/hosts:
::1			localhost localhost.my.domain
127.0.0.1		localhost localhost.my.domain
127.0.0.1		compy     compy.my.domain


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