<I am afraid to ask why you are an a "fail safe" mode. I thought you had already installed DF on a real machine and were logging in at after it booted. (You didn't leave the installer disk in the drive, right?)
Correct; it's installed on a real machine and the CD was ejected, but after installing xorg and kde I put that line to activate kdm in rc.conf and all went hayward. I cannot login in to terminal or in any other way except for Safe mode, as far as I can tell. That is exactly the problem - kdm login comes up automatically and I can't get out of the loop I described. <Our man pages are great. Our handbook? it's terrible. <sorry> That will force me to finally try to understand man pages then; more homework ;-) <Well, I agree xfce is a better starting choice. If I can get rid of the kdm-problem, I wouldn't mind trying xfce. <And I would use the FreeBSD handbook. I have the paper version of "FreeBSD 6 Unleashed"; I´ll see if that is appropriate in guiding me. DFly is based on FreeBSD 4 I believe? So I'll be carefull and double check on the web if in doubt. Ludo www.potingue.be On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:51 PM, John Marino <[email protected]> wrote: > On 4/4/2014 18:20, Ludo Beckers wrote: > > <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. > > > I am afraid to ask why you are an a "fail safe" mode. > I thought you had already installed DF on a real machine and were > logging in at after it booted. (You didn't leave the installer disk in > the drive, right?) > > If you are logging in as root from a normal boot, you should have no > trouble editing rc.conf. > > > > > <... 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/ > > Unfortunately, that is obsolete. It's back from pkgsrc days. > Our man pages are great. Our handbook? it's terrible. <sorry> > > > > > 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. > > Well, I agree xfce is a better starting choice. > And I would use the FreeBSD handbook. > > Sorry about the headache. > I wish better documentation existed -- or that bad documentation like > you found was deleted or hidden better. > > John >
