James wrote:
Steve Brenneis <sbrenneis <at> surry.net> writes:
I had this under a title related to nVidia drivers, but I have
determined that my KDM problems probably aren't related to that.
After upgrading to KDE 3.5.5, I can no longer start KDE from KDM.
Kdesktop crashes and leaves no trail. I rebuilt kdestop with the debug
USE flag, but I have no idea where to look for debugging information.
I can start KDE from a regular terminal session using startx.
/etc/rc.conf may or maynot be used to start X/kdm at boot time.
/etc/init.d/xdm script to see what's going on.
look at your config file /etc/conf.d/xdm to see what you have set.
You might also need to run 'revdep-rebuild -p' to clean rebuild some files.
hth,
James
Thanks,
All the configuration seems to be set up correctly. I have done several
revdep-rebuilds as well as a couple of emerge -e world.
Here are the relevant configuration files, though:
gamer ~ # cat /etc/rc.conf
# /etc/rc.conf: Global startup script configuration settings
# UNICODE specifies whether you want to have UNICODE support in the console.
# If you set to yes, please make sure to set a UNICODE aware CONSOLEFONT and
# KEYMAP in the /etc/conf.d/consolefont and /etc/conf.d/keymaps config
files.
UNICODE="yes"
# Set EDITOR to your preferred editor.
# You may use something other than what is listed here.
#EDITOR="/bin/nano"
EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim"
#EDITOR="/usr/bin/emacs"
# XSESSION is a new variable to control what window manager to start
# default with X if run with xdm, startx or xinit. The default behavior
# is to look in /etc/X11/Sessions/ and run the script in matching the
# value that XSESSION is set to. The support scripts are smart enough to
# look in all bin directories if it cant find a match in /etc/X11/Sessions/,
# so setting it to "enlightenment" can also work. This is basically used
# as a way for the system admin to configure a default system wide WM,
# allthough it will work if the user export XSESSION in his
.bash_profile, etc.
#
# NOTE: 1) this behaviour is overridden when a ~/.xinitrc exists, and
startx
# is called.
# 2) even if ~/.xsession exists, if XSESSION can be resolved, it will
# be executed rather than ~/.xsession, else KDM breaks ...
#
# Defaults depending on what you install currently include:
#
# Gnome - will start gnome-session
# kde-<version> - will start startkde (look in /etc/X11/Sessions/)
# Xsession - will start a terminal and a few other nice apps
#XSESSION="Gnome"
gamer ~ # cat /etc/conf.d/xdm
# Tell X to always start on VT7. Otherwise it autodetects the first
available
# VT, which means it has to wait until all gettys are started so it
doesn't suck
# up a VT that should have had a login prompt (very slow).
# If XSTATICVT is on, the login manager will start as soon as possible
during
# the boot process. If you want X to dynamically start on the first
unoccupied
# VT after all gettys have started and you are using xdm, also remove
the "vt7"
# from /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers.
XSTATICVT="yes"
# What display manager do you use ? [ xdm | gdm | kdm | entrance ]
# NOTE: If this is set in /etc/rc.conf, that setting will override this one.
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
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