<Are you editing /etc/rc.conf? I would like to but can't in fail safe mode, right? I just don't see how I can login otherwise.
<... activate them manually, e.g. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus enable same problem there. <... read the FreeBSD handbook for desktop environments instructions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x11-wm.html I used this as a guide: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/X/ Stuff like this: "KDE 4 requires that procfs(5)<http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=procfs&sektion=5>be mounted" makes me regret I installed KDE also, since I get the feeling one has to be half an expert before anything can be achieved - even a basic install. I should've tried xfce first - all this is really discouraging. Sorry about the negativity but it has literally given me a headache - a rare thing for me. Ludo www.potingue.be On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 5:31 PM, John Marino <[email protected]>wrote: > On 4/4/2014 17:19, Ludo Beckers wrote: > > After installing xorg I installed KDE 4.12.3_1 > > In rc.conf I added, as was suggested after install was complete, this > line: > > kdm4_enable="YES" > > > > Now login shows kdm but I get this error: > > Warning: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Failed > > to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/syste(unreadable here because the > > window goes past the monitors' edge) > > I press OK and get another message: > > Can you call qdbus? I press okay and am back at the kdm login - this > > loops in other words. > > > > Then I spent hours trying to find similar errors in divers fora. > > I ended up succesfully logging in to fail safe mode now, but if I want > > to take out the kdm-line from rc.conf I don't have permission. > > su root simply says "sorry" and in vi :wq! doesn't do it either. > > > > This looks like worth a try: > > Logging into an alternate DE, running *sudo chown -R username .dbus* and > > then rebooting (don't just logout, that consistently locked my machine > > up) should fix the problem. > > (taken from http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=19353) > > but sudo is a command not found where I am now (fail safe mode). > > > > Another suggestion is to install some Qt packages > > https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4319 but again I guess I > > need to be root for that. > > > > KDE-forum talks about Qt also but the solution this user took is a > > drastic reinstall http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=99228 > > > > Has anyone had this happen too? > > > Are you editing /etc/rc.conf? > e.g adding something like: > dbus_enable="YES" > > It will scroll by too fast but you have to tell DF that these daemons > are to be started upon boot. And the first time that you install them, > you have to activate them manually, e.g. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus enable > > I would also read the FreeBSD handbook for desktop environments > instructions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x11-wm.html > We share the ports so the instructions are usually valid for both systems. > > John >
