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I followed the wiki path of installation X11 and KDE
Everything went well but the problem is I cannot login via KDM login screen
For every of two accounts I get 'Login Failed' error, and at the same time I'm able to login via virtual console
My config
* not using xorg.conf
* rc.conf
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal network netfs crond kdm)
I've got two user accounts
1) old_user - user whos home dir is from my previous linux install, so there are old dot files in ~/
2) new_user - newly created account
* it's .xinitrc
exec startkde
with the new_user account I've tried to remove password, but still can't login with empty pass
then I've added it to groups optical and storage as wiki says (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … figure_HAL) but it didn't help either
I thought that toad's topic (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69882) is similar, but my new_user/.xsession-errors is empty
Last edited by cube_zero (2009-07-14 22:10:37)
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Following up from your mail - your rc.conf doesn't look too hot. If I were you I'd try the following stanza:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal dbus network netfs crond kdm)
HTH
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Following up from your mail - your rc.conf doesn't look too hot. If I were you I'd try the following stanza:
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal dbus network netfs crond kdm)
thanks for the interest
I followed wiki in the deamons order http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … figure_HAL
that is:
to avoid any complications it is best to load DBus before HAL through your daemons array
but
I've stopped the KDM deamon, logged as new_user, then startx and it worked
what should i change to be able to login 'normally' ?
now going to try toad's way
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I have seen a number of people suffering the same problem as you and _my way_ worked for them as well. I added as much to the wiki to reflect this - hope it works out for you
Having said that - I don't know why it shouldn't work the other way round and am not knowledgeable enough to explain it. All I know is that on my desktop it worked as stated in the wiki but my laptop required, well, the other way.
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On your Daemons array, is that a copy and paste or a typo?
"syslog-ngn" should be syslog-ng.
Otherwise the Damons array looks ok and the problem is elsewhere.
Nest question, are you using kde or kdemod?
I've used kdemod 3 and overlooked the fact that kdm3 had to be added to the damons instead of kdm.
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If all else fails, try http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Add … tab_Method
Just joking, try it now.
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I have seen a number of people suffering the same problem as you and _my way_ worked for them as well. I added as much to the wiki to reflect this - hope it works out for you
well, it didn't :]
after putting hal before dbus i get D-BUS error while booting (runlevel 3)
Failed to start message bus: The pid file "/var/run/dbus.pid" exist, if the message bus is not running, remove this file
but apart from this everything is as before
On your Daemons array, is that a copy and paste or a typo? "syslog-ngn"
typo, I've corrected it in the original post
Nest question, are you using kde or kdemod?
kde, but maybe the cause of problems is the fact that I first installed kde base (pacman -S kdebase) and then without uninstalling it I installed the full kde (pacman -S kde)
Just joking, try it now.
I will for sure.
Finally, I think it doesn't matter but just in case: I now use xorg.conf generated by nvidia-xconfig to set up my screen resolution
Last edited by cube_zero (2009-07-14 21:45:01)
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well, problem solved
but what was the cause of problem, dunno
I've tried what the wiki page, given by arkham, said and problem persisted. Then I yet another time reset user passwords, assing new ones and voila, it worked.
So by curiousity I tried to undo chages in config files (/etc/inittab and /etc/rc.conf) and it's working too.
So it looks like the password change did the thing, but why, that is the question.
Anyway, thank you guys for help.
Last edited by cube_zero (2009-07-14 22:17:18)
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Guys, I haven't this very same issue but one related to KDM login aswell.
I notice if I change my user passwd within a session and then logout/log in again KDM won't recognize my new password. Weird enough, I can log in from tty as allways, so the problem must reside in KDM. The only things a can do to solve this is: 1. autologin (which's not an option for me), 2. change back to the old password and 3. keep new password but start KDE via CLI (xinit).
Any idea!?
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I'm having exactly the same issue as Martin77 - frustrating...
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