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swiftscythe

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Registered: 2009-04-28

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KDM not working

Hi, yesterday I installed kdemod to try it out, but I preferred the normal kde from extra repo.

I followed the steps from the chakra-project.

I do this from time to time to check what kdemod is evolving to.

The problem is that after reinstalling kde from Extra, kdm won't work...

I use the inittab method.

I had to download xfce4 and run startxfce4 to get a graphical environment.

Any ideas? Please, ask for more information, if there's something i'm missing.

When I run startx, it complains about .Xauthority file in my home folder...

Thanks in advance

Last edited by swiftscythe (2010-01-12 15:28:58)

toad

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Re: KDM not working

How do you normally start X? Have you tried the rc.conf method? What does /var/log/kdm.log say?

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swiftscythe

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Registered: 2009-04-28

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Re: KDM not working

Hi!, thanks for the response
I normally startx automatically. I configured the inittab to do so. And had no problems until today
Here's the kdm.log
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/488112/kdm.log

Hope it helps.

Thanks again

swiftscythe

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Registered: 2009-04-28

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Re: KDM not working

It's very strange, because I installed gdm and it works too, I only have problems with kdm...

"startxfce4" and "sudo gdm" works, but not "startkde", nor "sudo kdm"

I have no idea about what's going on...

swiftscythe

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Registered: 2009-04-28

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Re: KDM not working

I have "almost" solved it
I renamed the kdm config files from /usr/share/config, and now kdm starts!!

There's still one problem. When i set my user and password, instead of showing the ksplash animation, it shows a terminal, in which i have to write 'startkde', to get it started, and that console window keeps opened during my kde session. Obviously, if i close it, kdm restarts.

How can move back to a normal behaviour??

Thanks in advance

berbae

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Registered: 2007-02-12

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Re: KDM not working

Here is a subtract of my /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc file :

# The program which is run as the user which logs in. It is supposed to
# interpret the session argument (see SessionsDirs) and start an appropriate
# session according to it. Subject to word splitting.
# Default is "/usr/bin/xterm -ls -T"
Session=/usr/share/config/kdm/Xsession

As you renamed the config file, everything is default for you.
So kdm launched a xterm.
Can you post the result of :
grep -v ^# /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc
replace kdmrc with your renamed file.

It seems there is a problem in that file.

swiftscythe

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Re: KDM not working

Thanks for the response (I renamed the whole folder)
Here's the output:

[General]                                                           
ConfigVersion=2.4                                                   
ConsoleTTYs=tty1,tty2,tty3,tty4,tty5,tty6                           
PidFile=/var/run/kdm.pid                                            
ReserveServers=:1,:2,:3                                             
ServerVTs=-7                                                        
StaticServers=:0                                                    

[Shutdown]
BootManager=None
HaltCmd=/sbin/halt
RebootCmd=/sbin/reboot

[X-*-Core]
AllowNullPasswd=false
AllowRootLogin=false 
AllowShutdown=Root   
AutoReLogin=false    
ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors-%d
Reset=/usr/share/config/kdm/Xreset
Session=/usr/share/config/kdm/Xsession
SessionsDirs=/usr/share/config/kdm/sessions,/usr/share/apps/kdm/sessions
Setup=/usr/share/config/kdm/Xsetup                                      
Startup=/usr/share/config/kdm/Xstartup                                  

[X-*-Greeter]
AntiAliasing=false
ColorScheme=Oxygen
FaceSource=AdminOnly
FailFont=Sans Serif,10,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0
ForgingSeed=1259447680                  
GUIStyle=Oxygen                         
GreetFont=Serif,20,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0    
GreetString=Welcome to %s at %n         
GreeterPos=50,50                        
HiddenUsers=                            
Language=en_US                          
LogoArea=Logo                           
LogoPixmap=/usr/share/apps/kdm/pics/kdelogo.png
MaxShowUID=65000                               
MinShowUID=500                                 
Preloader=/usr/bin/preloadkde                  
SelectedUsers=                                 
ShowUsers=NotHidden                            
SortUsers=true                                 
StdFont=Sans Serif,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0        
Theme=/usr/share/apps/kdm/themes/oxygen
UseBackground=true
UseTheme=true
UserCompletion=false
UserList=true

[X-:*-Core]
AllowNullPasswd=true
AllowShutdown=All
NoPassEnable=false
NoPassUsers=
ServerArgsLocal=-nolisten tcp
ServerCmd=/usr/bin/X

[X-:*-Greeter]
AllowClose=false
DefaultUser=swiftscythe
FocusPasswd=true
LoginMode=DefaultLocal
PreselectUser=Default

[X-:0-Core]
AutoLoginEnable=false
AutoLoginLocked=false
AutoLoginUser=
ClientLogFile=.xsession-errors

[Xdmcp]
Enable=false
Willing=/usr/share/config/kdm/Xwilling

Last edited by swiftscythe (2010-01-12 17:48:09)

swiftscythe

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Posts: 131

Re: KDM not working

I don't know what happened, but I finally managed to solve it by running:

sudo pacman -Rsn kde

And then installed kde again.

Thanks for your support

Snakeye

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Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 91

Re: KDM not working

Have you checked permissions on the .Xauthority file? I have had the persmissions change on me once, all i did was chmod 777 the file and i was able to get back into KDM.

Last edited by Snakeye (2010-01-12 20:09:32)

swiftscythe

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Registered: 2009-04-28

Posts: 131

Re: KDM not working

Thanks, Snakeye, yes I did try so, exactly the same, but nothing...

Thanks anyway