Need help with KDE/KDM
I can't log on through kdm_greet. All I see is a momentary loss of video signal then the login screen comes back. Has anyone else seen this? Where should I look for diagnostic info? Some other, possibly relevant informaion is: The system is a brand new, from scratch stable/woody installation. syslog, kdm.log, and XFree86.0.log don't show any errors indicating the failure. /var/log/auth.log shows: Jun 23 10:03:35 darkstar PAM_unix[5999]: (kdm) session opened for user rich by (uid=0) Jun 23 10:03:35 darkstar PAM_unix[5999]: (kdm) session closed for user rich startx from the command line will yield an X session. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with KDE/KDM
* Rich Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030623 17:00]: Has anyone else seen this? Where should I look for diagnostic info? No, I don't use kde. But you might find usefull information in your ~/.xsession-errors. Sincerely Alexander pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Need help with KDE/KDM
Rich Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't log on through kdm_greet. All I see is a momentary loss of video signal then the login screen comes back. That symptom sounds very much like you're successfully logging in, whatever your X session is runs to completion, and you automatically log out. Do you have a .xsession file, and if so, does it wait for some long-running process (typically a window manager or session manager) to finish? What kdm session are you using? -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Need help with KDE/KDM
On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 02:24 PM, David Z Maze wrote: Rich Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't log on through kdm_greet. All I see is a momentary loss of video signal then the login screen comes back. That symptom sounds very much like you're successfully logging in, whatever your X session is runs to completion, and you automatically log out. Do you have a .xsession file, and if so, does it wait for some long-running process (typically a window manager or session manager) to finish? What kdm session are you using? Thanks. This I can believe. But then why would startx behave differently? Wouldn't it still yield the default single console window you get when you run startx without a .xinitrc? I've tried all three session types (default, kde3, failsafe) and there's no change in behavior. I've tried both modifying .xsession and .xinitrc files, and there's no change in behavior. (.xsession and .xinit are identical) I get the same behavior whether I login as root or a normal user. In neither case does it appear to run .xsession For reference, I'm using a stubby little .xinitrc/.xsession: #! /bin/sh echo `date`: start X session /tmp/xtrace xconsole -geometry 528x70+0+0 kde3 echo `date`: end X session /tmp/xtrace I assume that .xsession is not running because /tmp/xtrace is left untouched. --rich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
