-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Paul Dorman wrote: > On Tuesday 02 September 2003 09:29, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > >>Paul Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>>Hi all, >>> >>>I think this is a 'glitch', rather than a 'bug' :op >>> >>>I have two cooker machines, both up to date. On both machines I have >>>problems with users not being able to see the icons and background on >>>their desktop, or have the right-click menu from the desktop. There's >>>just the default blue desktop... >> >>That's not normal.. any tip?
Wasn't this recently fixed in kdelibs? > > I logged a bug report (4882) concerning this. Problems are occuring because we > use LDAP authentication on our network: > > (clues from xession-errors) > ... > could not get user name from user id That's weird, what happens if you run 'getent passwd `id -u`'? > DCOP aborting (delayed) call from 'anonymous-5247' to 'kdesktop' > ERROR: Communication problem with kdesktop, it probably crashed. > ... > > Anybody else using LDAP for authentication? Things working okay? We use LDAP, one cooker box one user has a similar issue with kdesktop, mine works fine (so I haven't investigated it). We have $HOME on NFS also. Are you using nscd? Do you see other problems in auth.log? Regards, Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE/VMpsrJK6UGDSBKcRAheOAJ49wN65IKXP1f3njWxXlQrOjdxragCfRXDB 5zjjZRytPAMH0RLYSV213As= =zx3i -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ***************************************************************** Please click on http://www.cae.co.za/disclaimer.htm to read our e-mail disclaimer or send an e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a copy. *****************************************************************
