"Vincent Meyer, MD wrote: > Hi - Found a number of problems with a fresh install of today's cooker > > Mandrake's login screen - no passwords work
Known issue, I should have filed a bug report, but did't ... anyway: 1)Laurent isn't currently maintaining it as its future is undecided 2)kdm works fine: # urpmi kdebase-kdm echo "DESKTOP=kdm">> /etc/sysconfig/desktop This should probably be fixed (default to a working dm) before cooker snapshot ISOs ship ... otherwise we'll be in for lots of redundant bug reports ... > Mandrake's default desktop theme - no text displays on any buttons or > dialogs. Mandrake Firsttime all screens and buttons are blank > > Log out, log in as root, stop service dm, log in as a user then startx, > KDE comes up ok. Trying to bring up anything in superuser mode fails. > An example, invoking rpmdrake brings: > > ** (rpmdrake:2196) WARNING ** No builtin or dynamically loaded modules > were found. Pango will not work correctly, This probably means there > was an error in the creation of: > '/etc/pango/pango.modules' > you may be able to re-create this file by running pango-querymodules. > > running pango-quertmodules made no difference. This was covered in another thread, IIRC you need to: # pango-querymodules > /etc/pango/pango.modules