On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 17:24, Roger Miliker wrote: > On Sunday 23 February 2003 16:59, gabor wrote: > > i installed kde3.1, > > and basicall kdm starts, but it doesn't allow me to log in. > > > > when kdm starts it display this login dialog, where i enter my > > username+password+windowmanager, and then i press 'go', and it just > > turns back to the login screen. > >
> What do you mean by turning back to login screen? 'Login Denied' or does kdm > restart? i'm not sure but it seems that kdm restarts or something like that... welll... the xserver is not restarting.. basicall i press the 'go' button, then the screen blinks once and then i'm back at kdm... as if kdm started the session but it ended immediately... something like that > > I had the problem that /lib/security/pam_console.so was missing pam_get_item > or thelike. > > I found a similiar bug filed dor gdm in bugs.gentoo.org and the fix for this > bug worked. which one? do you remember the bug-number? > > do : ldd -r /lib/security/pam_console.so and if it says some missing symbol > then apply the fix: > > #echo "/lib/libpam.so" >> /etc/ld.so.preload thanks for the info... pam_get_item was missing , and i fixed it with that echo, but it didn't help in the kdm problem :-( btw. i'm using xdm now and it works ok... so i don't know what the kdm problem could be. gabor -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
