Question about FreeBSD

[Hyperblaze]

Installion of FreeBSD on a box

installed the mininal configuration

downloaded ports off freebsd website

unarchived ports in /usr/

went to /usr/ports/x11/
and did a "make install"

then went to /usr/ports/x11/kde3
and did a "make install"

once all that was done loaded up kdm to get into x-windows

upon entering the land of kde. Saw the welcome screen, however, in about the middle of
the prcocess screen "initializing system services" an error gets displayed but can't really see what it says since the kde 3.4 welcome screen covers it. shortly afterwards computer goes back to login screen.

is there a log file somewhere to tell me what might be wrong?

/var/log/messages and /var/log/Xorg.0.log don't appear to have that info in it.

 

[Nothinman]

If you used kdm there should be something in your ~/.xsession-errors file. You could also try killing KDM and using startx, that might print any errors to stdout on your terminal.

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
If you used kdm there should be something in your ~/.xsession-errors file. You could also try killing KDM and using startx, that might print any errors to stdout on your terminal.

Thanks dude!

apparantly /tmp/.ICE-unix had the wrong user permissions.....

fixed it and kde was entered without further issues 😀