On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Daniel Sutil <daniel.su...@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Smokejohn <smokej...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Klaus Becker <colon...@free.fr> wrote:
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>>> Le Mardi 06 Avril 2010 22:41:44, Daniel Sutil a écrit :
>>> > Finally I applied the following workaround: I remove kdm and installed
>>> gdm.
>>> > After that, I have no problem to login. I haven't investigated any
>>> further
>>> > because I really don't know from where the problem comes, but now,
>>> maybe we
>>> > have to undo the steps applied with the skype's solution to solve our
>>> > problem.
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I had the same problem with kdm, but no problem with gdm.
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> Klaus
>>>
>>> Hi. Installing gdm did not do the trick :(
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>> You must uninstall the kdm service first and select in the session
> selector of gdm "kde". If you don't select the session type, get some
> errors.
>

I uninstalled kdm and selected kde as a session but I got the same message
telling me that my session lasted lower than 10s and bla bla..

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>> When doing startx as a normal user from console I get some errors like
>> "xkb could not initialize" and "Xinit: no such file or directory" and
>> "Xinit: Could not connect to xserver"....
>>
>
> Have you stopped the kdm first?
>

Yes I did stop kdm when I tried that. The strange thing is that if I login
as root from console and do a startx then a kde session starts normally. If
I do that as a normal user I get the errors..

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>
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>> Some friend told me to purge kde and reinstall it. I don't think this will
>> help. Do you think I should give it a try?
>>
>>
>>
> I tried that with no success :-(
>
> If that didn't help you I will not bother..

J

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