Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-20 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:16:55 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:26:46PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:17:25 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:59:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > > On Mon, 18

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-20 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:26:46PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:17:25 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:59:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:36:37 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 200

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-20 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:17:25 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:59:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:36:37 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 03:57 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > > On Sun, 17 Aug 200

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:59:59AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:36:37 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 03:57 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:41:42 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2008-08-18

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:36:37 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 03:57 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:41:42 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 02:02 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > > Yes, since I need to use

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-19 Thread RW
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:57:32 +0200 Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the "good old times", you could update your applications > and they ran faster on the same hardware. That's what I've loved > FreeBSD for. Today, the applications run slower after every > update, so I have to update my

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-18 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 03:57 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:41:42 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 02:02 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > Yes, since I need to use FreeBSD 7 after an accident destroying all > > > my data where fsck cannot help an

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 20:17 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > [snip] > > > > the err message is gone, but KDE creates an /rmpty kdm.pid and > > does nothing. > > This is not good. The file should contain a number. > > [snip] > > It would also be helpful to know how you are

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:41:42 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 02:02 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > Yes, since I need to use FreeBSD 7 after an accident destroying all > > my data where fsck cannot help anymore, and FreeBSD 7 and it's > > software does not behave th

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 02:02 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:30:07 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:14:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > Maybe removing this PID file and retrying to start kdm > > > should solve the problem? It is possibl

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: [snip] > > the err message is gone, but KDE creates an /rmpty kdm.pid and > does nothing. This is not good. The file should contain a number. [snip] It would also be helpful to know how you are trying to run KDE. There are two ways, the first being to have a line like: tty

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:30:07 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:14:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > Maybe removing this PID file and retrying to start kdm > > should solve the problem? It is possible that kdm refuses > > to start while this file is present (a

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:14:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:04:34 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > > # kdm > > > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. > > > > I check

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:12:27PM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > > # kdm > > > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. > > Try deleting that file and reboot if you are starting kdm in t

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:04:34 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > # kdm > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. > > I check that file and, yup, it's there. Maybe removing this PID file and retryi

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > # kdm > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. Try deleting that file and reboot if you are starting kdm in ttys. If that by itself doesn't work there are a number of other files to clean

kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but # kdm fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. I check that file and, yup, it's there. kdm still fails. Gmnoe only gives me a small emergence xterm---probable due to my ~./.xsession setup. Any ideas why kdm