solved Re: kdm in a loop

Ludo Beckers lazylew at gmail.com
Fri Apr 4 13:02:27 PDT 2014


added to /etc/rc.conf the following:
dbus_enable="ŸES"
hald_enable="YES"
and set the kdm to YES again

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald start

rebooted and kdm works properly :-)

this solution was here: http://mustaxe.blogspot.be/

Ludo
www.potingue.be


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Ludo Beckers <lazylew at gmail.com> wrote:

> Super, that allowed me to set the kdm to NO and now I can login normally
> again.
> Thanks!
>
>
> Ludo
> www.potingue.be
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 8:36 PM, Francois Tigeot <ftigeot at wolfpond.org>wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 07:12:30PM +0200, Ludo Beckers wrote:
>> >
>> > Correct; it's installed on a real machine and the CD was ejected, but
>> after
>> > installing xorg and kde I put that line to activate kdm in rc.conf and
>> all
>> > went hayward.
>> >
>> > I cannot login in to terminal or in any other way except for Safe mode,
>> as
>> > far as I can tell.
>> > That is exactly the problem - kdm login comes up automatically and I
>> can't
>> > get out of the loop I described.
>>
>> If your machine automatically starts a graphical user interface you can
>> still
>> get out and use a regular text terminal by typing <ctrl>-<alt>-<f1>
>>
>> A few virtual terminals are always available. You can read more about them
>> here:
>> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/consoles.html
>>
>> (The documentation is about FreeBSD but DragonFly uses a similar mechanism
>> and so do most Unix-like operating systems)
>>
>> --
>> Francois Tigeot
>>
>
>
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