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Frugoo Scape

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Registered: 2009-01-08

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KDM destroyed

Ever since I updated my KDEMOD via pacman, KDM seams to never want to start. I had to comment out "type1" under "Models" in .xinitrc and I finally got KDE to start with "startx". The only problem I have now is that KDM fails to start on startup with the other daemons.
:: Starting KDE Desktop Manager                             [FAIL]
I checked the kde.log and it's empty It's not printing any errors.

Any suggestions in how to get the KDM to work?

Last edited by Frugoo Scape (2009-01-08 02:41:53)

pointone

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 379

Re: KDM destroyed

Try running KDM explicitly to see if you can get a better error message:

/usr/bin/kdm

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Frugoo Scape

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Registered: 2009-01-08

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Re: KDM destroyed

Hmm, intesting.

Error:

/usr/bin/kdm: error while loading shared libraries: libck-connector.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Files in package "consolekit 0.3.0-2"
http://www.archlinuxppc.org/packages/files/2653/

http://chakra-project.org/bugs/showreport.php?bugid=46

Well what do you know rolling release fail!

[fsdfasdfasdf ~]$ sudo pacman -Syu
Password:
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core                      31.5K  149.9K/s 00:00:00 [########################################################################################################################] 100%
 extra                    386.7K   56.8K/s 00:00:07 [########################################################################################################################] 100%
 community                352.7K   57.7K/s 00:00:06 [########################################################################################################################] 100%
 kdemod-core               44.4K  363.7K/s 00:00:00 [########################################################################################################################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (6): gimp-2.6.4-2  consolekit-0.3.0-3  kdemod-kdebase-workspace-4.1.4-2  kdemod-kdebase-workspace-doc-4.1.4-2  kdemod-kdebase-workspace-wallpapers-4.1.4-2
             pacman-mirrorlist-20090106-1

Total Download Size:    67.82 MB
Total Installed Size:   147.14 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

Last edited by Frugoo Scape (2009-01-08 04:32:10)

Hippuh

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 22

Re: KDM destroyed

KDM stopped working indeed.

/var/log/errors.log entry:

Jan  8 18:40:09 myhost kdm: :0[3471]: Client start failed
Jan  8 18:40:09 myhost kdm: :0[3471]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open
Jan  8 18:40:09 myhost kdm_greet[3500]: Cannot set locale. Translations will not work.
Jan  8 18:40:10 myhost kdm_greet[3500]: Cannot open default user face
Jan  8 18:40:19 myhost kdm: :0[3497]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success

Jan  8 18:44:41 myhost kdm: :0[3818]: Client start failed
Jan  8 18:44:41 myhost kdm: :0[3818]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open
Jan  8 18:44:42 myhost kdm_greet[3843]: Cannot open default user face
Jan  8 18:45:09 myhost kdm_greet[3918]: Cannot open default user face
Jan  8 18:45:13 myhost kdm: :0[3916]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: The permission of the setuid helper is not correct

Hippuh

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 22

Re: KDM destroyed

anyone found a way to fix it yet?

Chrysalis

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Registered: 2008-07-07

Posts: 155

Re: KDM destroyed

Its been fixed, make sure your system is up to date and you have consolekit.

Hippuh

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Registered: 2005-01-30

Posts: 22

Re: KDM destroyed

its not fixed with the regular kde version, just did a fresh arch FTP install and KDM is failing.

Feb  8 06:40:06 hippybak kdm: :0[2932]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
Feb  8 06:40:06 hippybak kdm: :0[2932]: Client start failed
Feb  8 06:40:06 hippybak kdm: :0[2932]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open
Feb  8 06:40:07 hippybak kdm_greet[3029]: Cannot open default user face

Also dbus had some problems starting up, there was no dbus user/group
adding the dbus user/group didn't solve it.

krzemin

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Registered: 2009-02-11

Posts: 3

Re: KDM destroyed

I had the same problem, but I found a solution that works for me.

In my /var/log/errors.log:

Feb 11 16:35:42 zuzia kdm: :0[4433]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Failed to execute program /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
Feb 11 16:35:42 zuzia kdm: :0[4433]: Client start failed
Feb 11 16:35:42 zuzia kdm: :0[4433]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open

So I changed permissions for /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper:

# chgrp dbus /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
# chmod g+s /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

And now I can log in with KDM

olaf42

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Registered: 2009-08-07

Posts: 7

Re: KDM destroyed

Same problem. It happened after

pacman -Rd consolekit

so if you just instal consolekit, it solves this problem

pacman -S consolekit

CoolGenie

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Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 56

Re: KDM destroyed

I have recently moved the /usr directory onto another partition and used softlinking to get to this directory. Since then I get this ConsoleKit setuid permission problem. Does anyone know how to fix this?

grey

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From: Europe

Registered: 2007-08-23

Posts: 679

Re: KDM destroyed

I have recently moved the /usr directory onto another partition and used softlinking to get to this directory.

How exactly did you do that?

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CoolGenie

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Registered: 2008-04-06

Posts: 56

Re: KDM destroyed

Well, I mounted the drive in /mnt/drive, copied /usr to /mnt/drive/usr, made a backup by doing

mv  /usr /usr.old

and finally did

ln -s /mnt/drive/usr /

.