Solved KDE crashing after install

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edwinoakes

1. Installation of FreeBSD 10.2 on UFS file system. 2 monitors using GeFource 9500 GT graphics card.
2. pkg install xorg. startxopens with TWM the same display in both monitors.
3. VIDIA-FreeBSD-x86_64-340.93.tar.gz downloaded from Nvidia site. Expanded and cd NV*93 && make install. Added /etc/X11/xorg.conf. startx opens with TWM one desktop on the two monitors.
4. pkg install kde. Added ~/.xinitrc. startx resulted in an error dialog, something about not being able to run dbus.
5. crl-alt-F1 and crl-c to get back to a console.
6. su. No .xinitrc in ~ /root.
7. pkg install firefox, firefox. Firefox failed to open. Looking at the last part of the output from installing Firefox, there was information to man dbus-uuidgen then do a dbus-uuidgen --ensure.
8. crl-d to get back to my normal user, then startx opened opened KDE successfully.

Somewhere in the handbook or at the end of the package installation output there needs to be a message, like the one that appeared after the Firefox installation.
 
edwinoakes said:
Somewhere in the handbook or at the end of the package installation output there needs to be a message, like the one that appeared after the firefox installation.
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Most of the big desktop packages (KDE, Gnome, etc) typically require at least the following in your /etc/rc.conf file
Code: 
dbus_enable="YES"
There is also a sticky in the Xorg forums that mentions this. I really thought the handbook mentioned this before...maybe it was edited out in recent iterations. :confused:
 
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