HEADS UP: Possible transient breakage with kdm (kdebase)

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 11:51, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> If you are unable to login to X via kdm after portupgrading to the latest 
> kdebase port and you're getting these or similar messages on the console
> 
> /kernel: Aug 13 17:12:10 kiste kdm: :0[447]: Can't execute 
> "/usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xstartup": No such file or directory
> /kernel: Aug 13 17:12:10 kiste kdm: :0[432]: Cannot execute startup script 
> "/usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xstartup"
> /kernel: Aug 13 17:12:10 kiste kdm: :0[448]: Can't execute 
> "/usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xreset": No such file or directory
> /kernel: Aug 13 17:12:12 kiste kdm: :0[458]: Can't execute 
> "/usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xsetup": No such file or directory
> 
> please do the following:
> 
> 1.) Copy /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc away to a safe place, for example 
> your home directory ( cp /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc ~/ )
> 
> 2.) Run, as root: genkdmconf --no-old
> 
> 3.) Put your copy of kdmrc back to /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc (cp 
> ~/kdmrc /usr/local/share/config/kdm/ )
> 
> Optional step 4.) Run, as root: genkdmconf (without any options) to update 
> your kdmrc to the lastest configfile format
> 
> Note for advanced users: Substitute /usr/local with your custom PREFIX if 
> you're using one.

This sounds like a good UPDATING entry.

Joe

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