kdm in a loop

[Ludo Beckers]

<I am afraid to ask why you are an a "fail safe" mode.
I thought you had already installed DF on a real machine and were
logging in at after it booted.  (You didn't leave the installer disk in
the drive, right?)

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.

<Our man pages are great.  Our handbook?  it's terrible. <sorry>

That will force me to finally try to understand man pages then; more
homework ;-)

<Well, I agree xfce is a better starting choice.

If I can get rid of the kdm-problem, I wouldn't mind trying xfce.

<And I would use the FreeBSD handbook.

I have the paper version of "FreeBSD 6 Unleashed"; I´ll see if that is
appropriate in guiding me. DFly is based on FreeBSD 4 I believe? So I'll be
carefull and double check on the web if in doubt.


Ludo
www.potingue.be


On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:51 PM, John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st> wrote:

> On 4/4/2014 18:20, Ludo Beckers wrote:
> > <Are you editing /etc/rc.conf?
> >
> > I would like to but can't in fail safe mode, right?
> > I just don't see how I can login otherwise.
> >
> > <... activate them manually, e.g. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus enable
> >
> > same problem there.
>
>
> I am afraid to ask why you are an a "fail safe" mode.
> I thought you had already installed DF on a real machine and were
> logging in at after it booted.  (You didn't leave the installer disk in
> the drive, right?)
>
> If you are logging in as root from a normal boot, you should have no
> trouble editing rc.conf.
>
> >
> > <... read the FreeBSD handbook for desktop environments
> > instructions: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x11-wm.html
> >
> > I used this as a guide: https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/newhandbook/X/
>
> Unfortunately, that is obsolete.  It's back from pkgsrc days.
> Our man pages are great.  Our handbook?  it's terrible. <sorry>
>
> >
> > Stuff like this: "KDE 4 requires that procfs(5)
> > <http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=procfs&sektion=5> be mounted"
> > makes me regret I installed KDE also, since I get the feeling one has to
> > be half an expert before anything can be achieved - even a basic install.
> >
> > I should've tried xfce first - all this is really discouraging.
> > Sorry about the negativity but it has literally given me a headache - a
> > rare thing for me.
>
> Well, I agree xfce is a better starting choice.
> And I would use the FreeBSD handbook.
>
> Sorry about the headache.
> I wish better documentation existed -- or that bad documentation like
> you found was deleted or hidden better.
>
> John
>
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