Re: Can't start KDE or TWM with KDM

[David Aubril <david.aubril@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I'm just a french guy. But I met that a couple of times. I guess 
that there is a line somewhere which still refers to /usr/X11R6. So 
that's what I wrote in my shell :
#ln -s /usr/pkg/xorg /usr/X11R6
It worked for me.

Justin C. Sherrill wrote:
> On Mon, October 2, 2006 4:12 am, Frank Petitjean wrote:
>
>   
> > After I entered the login and password, under KDM window, after a while I
> > have the message :
> > "the following installation problem was detected while trying to start KDE
> > could not find 'iceauth in path
> > KDE is unable to start"
> >
> > With TWM I don't have any message, but it does not work too.
> >
> > I launch KDM as a root user, and don't set up any environment variable
> > before.
> >     
>
> What does 'which iceauth' show?  Perhaps a package is missing?
>
>
>   
Frank Petitjean wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem when I try to lauch KDE or TWM with KMD.
>
> After I entered the login and password, under KDM window, after a 
> while I have the message :
> "the following installation problem was detected while trying to start 
> KDE
> could not find 'iceauth in path
> KDE is unable to start"
>
> With TWM I don't have any message, but it does not work too.
>
> I launch KDM as a root user, and don't set up any environment variable 
> before.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Frank.