Re: KDE 4 Cannot run as regular user
On Wednesday 08 October 2008 07:58:14 Tom Stuart wrote: Hello, I just installed KDE4 via ports and am getting errors upon attempting to start as a regular user. When I run startkde as root it works fine but I don't want to use root on this machine. Error Generated when started as a regular user $ startx /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libX11.so.6 not found, required by xinit /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth The files are there $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libXau.so /usr/local/lib/libX11.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Oct 6 03:09 /usr/local/lib/libX11.so - libX11.so.6 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Oct 6 03:06 /usr/local/lib/libXau.so - libXau.so.6 Where the files are on your system is of no concern. Whether ld(1) knows where they are is. ldconfig -r |grep Xau should show /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6, if not, ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib run as root should fix your problem. -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE 4 Cannot run as regular user
Tom Stuart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed KDE4 via ports and am getting errors upon attempting to start as a regular user. When I run startkde as root it works fine but I don't want to use root on this machine. Error Generated when started as a regular user $ startx /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libX11.so.6 not found, required by xinit /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libXau.so.6 not found, required by xauth The files are there $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libXau.so /usr/local/lib/libX11.so lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Oct 6 03:09 /usr/local/lib/libX11.so - libX11.so.6 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11 Oct 6 03:06 /usr/local/lib/libXau.so - libXau.so.6 $ ls -l /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1080722 Oct 6 03:09 /usr/local/lib/libX11.so.6 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel10604 Oct 6 03:06 /usr/local/lib/libXau.so.6 $ cat .xinitrc exec /usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde $ uname -a FreeBSD xxx.xxx.net 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #2: Mon Oct 6 02:45:38 MDT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx i386 I'm sure this is a very little issue but I appreciate your patience and help in resolving this issue. I'll guess the problem isn't related to KDE, but to X in general. Can you start twm as your local user? With a minimal .xinitrc file? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
