You can fix .Xauthority by doing 'touch Xauthority' in your home directory.
startkde should be provided by kdebase3 (or kdebase3-ssl). If you don't have it installed, do so. If you do, try reinstalling it. On Friday 26 July 2002 16:14, Anthony Tambourino wrote: > Thanks for the tip. Not sure if I'm replying to this correctly so it > posts, but here is what happened: > > [localhost:~] anthony% startx -- -quartz > > 2002-07-26 16:06:47.355 XDarwin[869] > XDarwin 1.1 > Running in parallel with Mac OS X Quartz window server. > > XFree86 Version 4.2.0 / X Window System > (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) > Release Date: 18 January 2002 > If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your hardware is > newer than the above date, look for a newer version before > reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/FAQ) > Operating System: Darwin > Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping. > _XSERVTransmkdir: Owner of /tmp/.X11-unix should be set to root > Display mode: Full screen Quartz > Screen 0 added: 1280x1024 @ (0,0) > cat: /Users/anthony/.Xauthority: No such file or directory > /Users/anthony/.xinitrc: no such file or directory: /sw/bin/startkde [2] > Using keymapping provided in /System/Library/Keyboards/USA.keymapping. > Display mode: Full screen Quartz > Screen 0 added: 1280x1024 @ (0,0) > > waiting for X server to shut down Quitting XDarwin... > > It says that .Xauthority is missing. Unfortunately, I don't know what it > is or where I would find it... any suggestions? It also says I am missing > startkde, but I thought I installed everything I needed for KDE to run. > > Thanks, > > Anthony > > On Friday, July 26, 2002, at 11:28 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > Try starting XDarwin from a Terminal window using > > > > 'startx -- -quartz' > > > > That way the error messages will print out. > > > > Also, you don't need system-xtools: XTools is a commercial Xwindows > > server. What package is telling you that you need system-xtools? > > > > On Friday 26 July 2002 11:08, Anthony Tambourino wrote: > >> I searched the mailing list for this problem but didn't see it. If it > >> has been explained before, sorry for reposting... just please point me > >> to the thread. > >> > >> I tried installing KDE. After what appeared to be a successful > >> installation, I opened XDarwin and instead of opening up and going to > >> KDE (which supposedly it should have done). XDarwin went to the gray > >> screen, then immediately quit without any type of error message. > >> > >> After futzing around for a bit, I went back into terminal and (probably > >> made the mistake of) reinstalling fink. First it said I was missing > >> xfree-base and to install it. I tried that, but it said I had to remove > >> X11R6 and X11. So I did that. It installed Xfree-base, but then it > >> told me I needed Xtools. I tried to install Xtools, but it said > >> Xfree-base conflicts with Xtools so I need to remove X11 and X11R6 > >> again. Well, I just did that to install Xfree-base, so I was just > >> getting into a loop. So then I tried completely reinstalling fink > >> (which again was probably a mistake), figuring it would "reset" whatever > >> I screwed up when I tried to install KDE. That didn't work because > >> Xdarwin did the same thing as before. > >> > >> Then I tried resintalling Xdarwin (actually I've tried that a couple of > >> times), but it did the same thing. > >> > >> So I tried to update everthing using sudo dselect. It spent a long time > >> updating a lot of stuff (a good hour or so with just streams of text > >> running through Terminal). Then it gave me error saying I needed > >> Xtools, but X11 and X11R6 needed to be removed (I think, I frankly can't > >> remember anymore). Sounded like I was in the same loop again of it > >> telling me to install something that conflicts with something I just > >> installed before that. > >> > >> I'd like to just uninstall everything and try again, unless somebody > >> else has a simpler suggestion. Right now, I'm tapped out! > >> > >> Any help would be greatly appreciated! > >> > >> -Anthony > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------- > >> This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > >> Welcome to geek heaven. > >> http://thinkgeek.com/sf > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Fink-beginners mailing list > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > > > > -- > > -- > > Alexander K. Hansen > > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > > Levitated Dipole Experiment > > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > > Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 -- -- Alexander K. 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