2014-08-19 0:49 GMT+04:00 Chuck Burns <brea...@gmail.com>: > 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:
No, you set your process limits here up to the maximum ones set in login.conf. You need to tweak the openfiles* settings. After doing that you'll need to re-login (recommendation is to try new settings on a new virtual terminal first, to make sure you still could log in). You could also switch to old way for KDE files monitoring (note, this will bring back constant disk access and CPU eating problem!): kwriteconfig4 --group DirWatch --key PreferredMethod QFSWatch Run this command before logging into X, and make sure no KDE processes are running - if so, you'll need to kill them before logging in again. > 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 :) -- WBR, Vadim Zhukov
