desktop problem

Jonathan Engwall engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 19:19:45 PST 2019


Can anyone explain this?
See the screenshot image...

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 9:14 PM Jonathan Engwall <
engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, it seems that dbus support is there but the directories which the OS
> "cannot find" really are not there.
> I have installed dozens of packages with "pkg search <qt5 or whatever>"
> followed by "pkg install <whatever>" that is not really the issue.
> The issue is the login screen of KDE locks me out. I looked for the
> launcher itself to tell it to dbus-launch with no real success.
> I installed KDE with mkdesktop as root. My last guess is that I can launch
> KDE from a script in root. However there are several directories which
> really do not exist.
> Jonathan Engwall
>
> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 5:24 PM Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com wrote:
>
>> Make sure /etc/rc.conf has:
>>
>> dbus_enable="YES"
>>
>> You should be able to add and remove packages at-will with the 'pkg'
>> program as root.  If it isn't on the system you can bootstrap it with:
>>
>> cd /usr
>> make pkg-bootstrap
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 3:46 PM Jonathan Engwall <
>> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Downloading 5.4.1 now hoping for better results.
>>> Any advice, suggestion, inquiry is welcome.
>>> Jonathan Engwall
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 2:06 PM Jonathan Engwall <
>>> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com wrote:
>>>
>>>> Also you should know that I am using it on virtualbox.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Feb 19, 2019, 1:52 PM Jonathan Engwall <
>>>> engwalljonathanthereal at gmail.com wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have spent all day working on this, since 8 a.m. it is now 1:45. X11
>>>>> and DBUS did not configure properly. Mkdesktop is the pkg I used to build
>>>>> KDE and now, because /var/run/dbus is literaly not there I cannot log in.
>>>>> I need to bypass the desktop to get console access. I have used the
>>>>> live image several times and made changes which ultimately have not
>>>>> produced results.
>>>>> I have changed the entry for tty8, I have written an .xinitrc, I have
>>>>> changed the .login and .login-config both to BAK.login. And I get nowhere.
>>>>> At this point I want to remove KDE, but I can't. Using the live image
>>>>> as root does not allow me to remove any packages.
>>>>> How can I get around the desktop login?
>>>>> Jonathan Engwall
>>>>> Also I have noticed that /etc/X11/ is empty
>>>>>
>>>>
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