On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 08:26:25PM +0100, Kuba Głoś wrote: > Hi! > Is there no hope? > KDE4 used to work on OpenBSD =<6.4 > KDE3.5 tested on OpenBSD 6.5 – working great > > Maybe it has something to do with (taken from OpenBSD 6.5 ANNOUNCEMENT file) > following? > > > - Xenocara o Xorg(1), the X window server, is no longer installed setuid. > xenodm(1) should be used to start X. > > Kind regards, > Kuba > Od: Kuba Głoś > Wysłano: poniedziałek, 4 listopada 2019 10:14 > Do: bugs@openbsd.org > Temat: application crash on KDE4 startup > > > Synopsis: Applications crash on KDE4 startup > Catergory: KDE4 windows manager > Environment: > System : OpenBSD 6.6 > Details : OpenBSD 6.6 (GENERIC) #298: Sat Oct 12 11:06:10 > MDT 2019 > > dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC > > Architecture: OpenBSD.i386 > Machine : i386 > Description: > I lately try to install KDE4 on OpenBSD 6.5 . > Unfortunately that was not quite a success. > > After starting KDE4, Activity Manager crashed and other apps have troubles > starting too. > > What I did to make KDE4 work… (besides installing kde4 package, of course): > * configured to start messagebus (rcctl enable messagebus) > * added sysctl tweaks (post install messages from kde-runtime package) > * added 'exec kdestart4' to ~user/.xsession > > Like I wrote… efect is that kde4 starts, but Activity Manager crashes at > start. > > I seen a video on youtube (Setting Up OpenBSD 6.1 with KDE4) where a guy > demonstrates how it should be configured, so I got virtual machine with > OpenBSD 6.1 on my laptop and it worked! Tweaks pointed above appeared enough > to start KDE4. > > So I got another virtual machine with OpenBSD 6.5 and received the same > crashes like on my hardware PC. > Lately OpenBSD 6.6 was released so I think I would try it and got also > Activity Manager crash. > > Playing with OpenBSD versions I got to conclusion that KDE4 for versions up > to 6.4 works fine. > > What should I do more? Are any additional tweaks necessary to make things > work for version 6.5+ ? > > I tried few more things… > Doubled limits from kde-runtime post-install messages - didn't help. > > Tried to start via kdm (I used xenodm before). > #genkdmconf > and then > #rcctl stop xenodm > #rcctl start kdm > KDM seems to not start at all for OpenBSD 6.5+, it writes OK, but doesn't > start X and > #rcctl ls off |grep kdm > gives reply (so it's off). > > I see that /etc/rc.d/kdm changed in latest versions compared to earlier (ie. > 6.1), but I don't feel strong enough to analyze it. > ...but maybe it's irrelevant to main issue. > > File ~$user/.xsession-errors contains a lots of errors, most important (to > me) seem (multiple)messages like: > *Kded:loadModule: Could not load library "kded_keyboard" . [ "Cannot load > library /usr/local/lib/kde4/kded_keyboard.so: (File not found)" ] > (altrough file exists) > and > *kdeinit4_wrapper: Warning: > connect(/home/$user/.kde4/socket-$hostname/kdeinit4__0) failed: : No such > file or directory > > How-To-Repeat: > 1. install OpenBSD ver. 6.5+ with kde4 > 2. tweak kernel limits as per kde-runtime post-install messages > 3. start messagebus (rcctl start messagebus) > 4. start KDE4 (ie. startkde4 as root) > > Fix: > Clean start of KDE4, KDE ups not hanging up (ie. KInfo after few clicks hangs > up) > > I ommit dmesg output as issue seems hardware-irrelevant (tested on VirtualBOX > and HP Vectra 420). > > Kind regards, > Kuba Głoś > >
I wanted to try kde4 2 days ago on -current amd64 and I had the exact same problem of kde activity manager crashing at start (on a fresh clean account).
