On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Daniel Sutil <daniel.su...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Un saludo, > > Daniel Sutil > > > > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:00 PM, Smokejohn <smokej...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:35 PM, Daniel Sutil <daniel.su...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> >>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Smokejohn <smokej...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Klaus Becker <colon...@free.fr> wrote: >>>> >>>>> 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 :( >>>> >>>> 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.. >> >>> >>> >>>> 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.. >> > > Can you paste the errors? > When trying to login with gdm it has an option to view the .xsession-errors file. The error is mkdtmp: private folder browsing (something like that :P): Permission denied. When I was using kdm and did a cat on the same file the second line just showed: Permission denied. I checked the .Xauthority file and did chown to my user. > > >> >>> >>>> >>>> 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 >> >> >
