Solved Unable to start KDE

michael_n

michael_n

Hello, I have a fresh install of FreeBSD 10.1 x64 on a Dell Precession M4500. I tried to get KDE going as I just did on a VM the other day but to no avail. Here's what I did:

pkg install x11/kde4
Appended the following lines to /etc/rc.conf
Code: 
kdm4_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"
Appended the following line to /etc/fstab
Code: 
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
I then rebooted and received the following error:
Code: 
kdm[696]: X server died during startup
kdm[696]: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled
I then tried the following to no avail:
pkg install xorg

Any suggestions would be very appreciated. I tried to go by the handbook and as I said, this worked last week in a VM.

Thanks, Mike
 
Please see enclosed, thanks.
Code: 
mnickel@freeBSD:~ % view /var/log/Xorg.0.log
[    14.800]
X.Org X Server 1.14.7
Release Date: 2014-06-05
[    14.800] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[    14.800] Build Operating System: FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE-p9 amd64
[    14.800] Current Operating System: FreeBSD freeBSD 10.1-RELEASE-p6 FreeBSD 1
0.1-RELEASE-p6 #0: Tue Feb 24 19:00:21 UTC 2015     root@amd64-builder.daemonolo
gy.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
[    14.801] Build Date: 25 February 2015  02:19:25PM
[    14.801]
[    14.801] Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
[    14.801]    Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
        to make sure that you have the latest version.
[    14.801] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
        (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
        (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[    14.801] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Mar  7 17:15:46 201
5
[    14.804] (II) Loader magic: 0x7eb850
[    14.804] (II) Module ABI versions:
[    14.804]    X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[    14.804]    X.Org Video Driver: 14.1
[    14.804]    X.Org XInput driver : 19.1
[    14.804]    X.Org Server Extension : 7.0
/var/log/Xorg.0.log: unmodified, readonly: line 1
 
That's not the whole log only the first page.

To upload the whole log install e.g. misc/pastebinit ( pkg install misc/pastebinit) and upload it with pastebinit -b cxg.de < /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Post the URL so we can take a look.
 
Sorry, I got it but it's too long for the text box. Trying to upload it... Mike
 

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Hello all,

I just installed FreeBSD 10.2 x64 on a Dell Precision M4500. I wanted to set it up with KDE so I ran the following: pkg; pkg install vim xorg kde; freebsd-update fetch; freebsd-update install
I then added the following to /etc/fstab:
Code: 
proc        /proc        procfs    rw    0    0
Lastly, I added the following to /etc/rc.conf
Code: 
hald_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
kdm4_enable="YES"
Upon reboot, I received the following error:
Code: 
login: Nov 1 03.02.52 dell kdm[710]: X server died during startup
Nov 1 03:02:52 dell kdm[710]: X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled
Here is my /var/logs/Xorg.0.log file.
http://pastebin.com/gAgYmurg
I have used Linux for quite some time but am new to FreeBSD and have never configured a driver on Unix before. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Mike
 
I have a similar problem with FreeBSD 11 in VirtualBox VM on Linux Mint Serena. 10.3 worked fine, but not 11.

(Intel Corporation Broadwell-U Integrated Graphics with Intel Core i5-5250U in an nuc.)

Do you have similar advice?
 
The exact type of hardware of the host is not relevant as the VM will only see a "virtual" graphics card. Make sure you have emulators/virtualbox-ose-additions installed to get the most out of it.

If you have further issues please open a new thread, this issue is not related to the original thread starter.
 
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