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 2008 17:41:42

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, 2008-08-18 at

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 Aug 2008

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....

2008-08-19 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 FreeBSD 7

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 at 02:02

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 anymore, and

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

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 as

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 retrying to

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 ttys. If

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 that file and,

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 (and kdm

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: ttyv8

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 possible that kdm

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 the way I

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 trying to run