Ok, forgive me if this is a bit too detailed. I recently upgraded my box from 5.5 to a snapshot that I downloaded from the official ftp.openbsd.org server.
After upgrading, performing sysmerge and all the other required steps, I then upgraded my pkgs, using pkg_add -ui After all of my packages were upgraded, including KDE and Firefox, KDE no longer works correctly. It shows the old-style icons for volume, clipper, and other kde apps. This in and of itself is not that big of a deal, however, the KDE services also all stop. System-settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Service Manager shows that NONE of the KDE services are running. Not one. They most certainly worked just fine under 5.5 and whichever KDE4 that was in that version's pkg repo. So.. I then decided to just delete -all- packages, including configs, and just reinstall them. Now, however, I cannot even get logged into KDE. this is after deleting my dotfiles from my user directory. Now, I did notice that I was supposed to set, and did: kern.maxfiles=20000 kern.shminfo.shmall=51200 kern.shminfo.shmmni=1024 I also read on the updating faq that I am to change login.conf to increase the limits. I set them to the max that I could: break19@keyhole:~/ > ulimit -a -t: cpu time (seconds) unlimited -f: file size (blocks) unlimited -d: data seg size (kbytes) 524288 -s: stack size (kbytes) 32768 -c: core file size (blocks) unlimited -m: resident set size (kbytes) 2029668 -l: locked-in-memory size (kbytes) 680025 -u: processes 512 -n: file descriptors 1024 Once doing this, I could get to a black screen in Xorg. However, if I changed my .xinitrc to be "startkde4 --failsafe" I was able to -most- things to work. I had a completely empty panel at the bottom, but I was able to at least add the correct widgets to it, but the defaults are supposed to just work there.. I'm not sure what is broken, but it's evident that something is. Now, the FAQ gives me a number of like 3500 file descriptors, but ulimit complains that anything above 1024 is "over the hardcoded limit" so.. Sorry to bother you guys about a "ugly bloated DE" like KDE, but I've used KDE since like 1996 or 1997 :) Chuck Burns
