On Wednesday, 30. March 2005 18:25, Dana Rawson wrote:
> G'Day, All.
>
> Please forgive me as I ask these questions.  I have been playing around
> with FreeBSD 5.3 and finally got it installed.  I believe I have the
> general installation down.  However, I am having problems with running
> KDE.  I installed KDE and had walked through the handbook
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/book.html#X11-
> WM attempting to get it installed and kept receiving an error message:
>
> "kpersonalizer: cannot connect to X server" when using the startkde
> command.

You need to run startkde when an X server is already running. 

The usual way to launch the X server with kde as primary client is to put 
startkde into a text file called .xinitrc in your home directory and then 
running startx. 

Make sure you have a complete X server installation before you do this. If 
you're not sure, install the x11/xorg port or pkg_add -r xorg, this will add 
any missing parts of X that might be missing.

> 1. What is the best way to clean up this mess that I have created by
> deinstalling and attempting to upgrade?

It's hard to guess what 'this mess' now looks like, but if you attach the 
output of ls /var/db/pkg to another mail, we can get a better idea.

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