[gentoo-user] KDE/KDM problems

[gentoo-user] KDE/KDM problems

[Simon Windsor]

Hi

I have just built KDE, version 3.4.1, and it is not starting properly.

I have 

- disabled IP6 tests - it now faster to start
- chmod 666 /dev/null allows kdm to start, otherwise startkde reports
errors
- chmod 660 /dev/dsp to grant access to users in audio group

After all this, kde starts, but I still get errors with /dev/dsp.

Any ideas?

Simon



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[gentoo-user] Re: KDE/KDM problems

[James]

Simon Windsor <simon.windsor <at> cornfield.org.uk> writes:


> I have just built KDE, version 3.4.1, and it is not starting properly.
> 
> I have 
> 
> - disabled IP6 tests - it now faster to start
> - chmod 666 /dev/null allows kdm to start, otherwise startkde reports
> errors
> - chmod 660 /dev/dsp to grant access to users in audio group
> 
> After all this, kde starts, but I still get errors with /dev/dsp.

Well, I'm not sure of your KDE versus /dev/dsp issues, so I'll 
remind you about  checking rc.conf. It change a while back, but
mine still has these settings:

DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

SESSION="kde-3.4.1"

The system boots into KDE just fine. I'm not sure if the SESSION
setting in rc.conf is deprecated now or not....

Before running 'env-update && source /etc/profile && etc-update'

I look at the proposed list of updates to config files that
etc-update wants to perform. If I have a question about the
files to be updated, I make a backup of the file with the current
date appended. That way, you can recover config files
or look at them over time to see how they have changed.
/etc/rc.conf is a good example....



HTH,
James


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE/KDM problems

[Simon Windsor]

Hi

Thanks, a definite improvement.

- KDE now start ok
- /dev/null on reboot is now crw-rw-rw, which is ok
- /de/vdsp on reboot is now crw-rw-rw
- konsole now works

There are two remaining problems

- Sound, whenever kde starts I get an error with /dev/dsp. Is it work
changing the owner from root:audio to <user>:audio?
- Kmail keeps crashing, and whilst showing mail subjects ok will not
show the mail bodies.

All fun and games!

Simon

On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:37 +0000, James wrote:
> Simon Windsor <simon.windsor <at> cornfield.org.uk> writes:
> 
> 
> > I have just built KDE, version 3.4.1, and it is not starting properly.
> > 
> > I have 
> > 
> > - disabled IP6 tests - it now faster to start
> > - chmod 666 /dev/null allows kdm to start, otherwise startkde reports
> > errors
> > - chmod 660 /dev/dsp to grant access to users in audio group
> > 
> > After all this, kde starts, but I still get errors with /dev/dsp.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure of your KDE versus /dev/dsp issues, so I'll 
> remind you about  checking rc.conf. It change a while back, but
> mine still has these settings:
> 
> DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
> 
> SESSION="kde-3.4.1"
> 
> The system boots into KDE just fine. I'm not sure if the SESSION
> setting in rc.conf is deprecated now or not....
> 
> Before running 'env-update && source /etc/profile && etc-update'
> 
> I look at the proposed list of updates to config files that
> etc-update wants to perform. If I have a question about the
> files to be updated, I make a backup of the file with the current
> date appended. That way, you can recover config files
> or look at them over time to see how they have changed.
> /etc/rc.conf is a good example....
> 
> 
> 
> HTH,
> James
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE/KDM problems

[Alexander Kirillov]

What sort of a problem with /dev/dsp?
You can't use /dev/dsp when arts (KDE sound daemon) is active.
Either try artsdsp [-m] or wait till arts is suspended.
Sasha

> - KDE now start ok
> - /dev/null on reboot is now crw-rw-rw, which is ok
> - /de/vdsp on reboot is now crw-rw-rw
> - konsole now works
> 
> There are two remaining problems
> 
> - Sound, whenever kde starts I get an error with /dev/dsp. Is it work
> changing the owner from root:audio to <user>:audio?
> - Kmail keeps crashing, and whilst showing mail subjects ok will not
> show the mail bodies.
> 
> All fun and games!
> 
> Simon
> 
> On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 16:37 +0000, James wrote:
> 
>>Simon Windsor <simon.windsor <at> cornfield.org.uk> writes:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I have just built KDE, version 3.4.1, and it is not starting properly.
>>>
>>>I have 
>>>
>>>- disabled IP6 tests - it now faster to start
>>>- chmod 666 /dev/null allows kdm to start, otherwise startkde reports
>>>errors
>>>- chmod 660 /dev/dsp to grant access to users in audio group
>>>
>>>After all this, kde starts, but I still get errors with /dev/dsp.
>>
>>Well, I'm not sure of your KDE versus /dev/dsp issues, so I'll 
>>remind you about  checking rc.conf. It change a while back, but
>>mine still has these settings:
>>
>>DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
>>
>>SESSION="kde-3.4.1"
>>
>>The system boots into KDE just fine. I'm not sure if the SESSION
>>setting in rc.conf is deprecated now or not....
>>
>>Before running 'env-update && source /etc/profile && etc-update'
>>
>>I look at the proposed list of updates to config files that
>>etc-update wants to perform. If I have a question about the
>>files to be updated, I make a backup of the file with the current
>>date appended. That way, you can recover config files
>>or look at them over time to see how they have changed.
>>/etc/rc.conf is a good example....

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE/KDM problems

[Holly Bostick]

Alexander Kirillov schreef:
> What sort of a problem with /dev/dsp?
> You can't use /dev/dsp when arts (KDE sound daemon) is active.
> Either try artsdsp [-m] or wait till arts is suspended.
> Sasha
> 
> 

Doesn't that situation call for the use of artswrapper? I don't use arts
very much, so I forget how to call it (srtswrapper application?)

Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE/KDM problems

[Alexander Kirillov]

>>What sort of a problem with /dev/dsp?
>>You can't use /dev/dsp when arts (KDE sound daemon) is active.
>>Either try artsdsp [-m] or wait till arts is suspended.
> 
> Doesn't that situation call for the use of artswrapper? I don't use arts
> very much, so I forget how to call it (srtswrapper application?)

You probably mean artsdsp which emulates /dev/dsp using arts api?

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