On 9/2/05, Jan Ekholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 02 September 2005 00:05, Jean de Largentaye wrote: > > Salutations, > > > > After making the jump and upgrading to KDE 3.4.2, I cannot login > > through KDM anymore. > > The kdm login screen disappears, then I wait a few seconds for the kde > > splash to appear, then X resets, and back to the login screen. This > > happens whichever session I choose (of KDE, Larswm, or failsafe). > > My wife couldn't start 3.4.2 on Kubuntu through KDM due to some bug that > affects X startup when the user's shell is tcsh (not sh or bash). Debian had > some bug report about it, the bug is almost a year old, but I can't find it > right now. Logging in worked when she changed her shell to bash. > Well, I'm using bash, so that doesn't seem to be the problem.
Previously, in the kdm.log, it had an error about the :0 display being alread occupied (can't remember the exact wording). This has disappeared however, in favor of the message i reported in my previous mail. John