On Monday 10 September 2001 05:56 pm,JW wrote:
<snip>
> Presuming that it is indeed xdm, try rpm -ql kdebase. Those are the
> files most likely to pertain to your situation. you can run rpm -qf
> /opt/kde2/bin/kdm to make sure it's kdebase in your case. Likewise
> for xdm, if you find that to be what's being run.
>
> This all presumes that you have any info left in your RPM database,
> which might not be depending on how you removed your old KDE.
>
> In any event, you may need to wipe those files out entirely and
> reinstall them.
>
> Don't forget that strace is your friend too. You could, from runlevel
> 3, run strace -o kdm.strace /opt/kde2/bin/kdm and then kill it, and
> grep through it for all the files it happened to look in.
>
> Have you recursively grepped through /etc and /usr for "failsafe"
> and/or "kde2" (kde will probably give you a million hits).
I will check these things out for future reference. I fixed "sessions"
within the control center while running kde in xterm and could then
start normally. But I want to eventually find the file that the
control center modified.
Thanks!
--
Tony Alfrey
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