From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_IN_PAST_24_48, DMARC_MISSING,FREEMAIL_FROM,INVALID_DATE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from mailout00.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.16]) by cvs.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 14wyar-0007vS-00 for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Mon, 07 May 2001 21:55:25 -0600 Received: from fwd05.sul.t-online.de by mailout00.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14wyaH-00023P-00; Tue, 08 May 2001 05:54:49 +0200 Received: from helios.bagwan (320095285153-0001@[217.80.39.245]) by fwd05.sul.t-online.com with smtp id 14wyaV-14gdN2C; Tue, 8 May 2001 05:55:03 +0200 Received: (qmail 28947 invoked by uid 0); 8 May 2001 06:38:14 -0000 Received: from sadchitananda2.bagwan (HELO gentoo.org) (achim@192.168.2.1) by helios.bagwan with SMTP; 8 May 2001 06:38:14 -0000 Message-ID: <3AF76763.D865783B@gentoo.org> From: AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.14 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kde er4ror with xsetroot References: <20010507215023.2396e7be.erichey2@home.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Sender: 320095285153-0001@t-dialin.net Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: achim@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux development list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Mon May 7 21:56:02 2001 X-Original-Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 05:26:27 +0200 X-Archives-Salt: 19a4af4b-d0e4-45e8-9d36-b2f69680cf7c X-Archives-Hash: e02b023c216dd967fdf8f44a12b7c5f6 Collins Richey wrote: > > I installed kde with emerge kde-base ... which brought in kde-libs and other > stuff. > > When I try to run it, it complains that xsetroot and other x... complain that > display = '' and they die without starting the xserver (root or user > environment). Same restults with > startkde > or > echo kde >.wm > startx Hmm, that sounds like your xfree installation has problems. It is really strange that stuff works here and no other user reported such problems. Try ebuild xfree-4.0.3-r3 clean unmerge merge. > > By the way, in setting up users, I discovered that /etc/skel (not a file but > an empty directory) is borken. :) It's not broken, we don't have user specific templates for that dir at the moment. The stuff in that dir gets copied to the users homedir if you call useradd with the -m option. bye achim~ > > -- > Collins Richey > Denver Area > Sybil test system (reiserfs) > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://www.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev