KDM and FreeBSD 3.3

1999-10-13 Thread Gong Wei

Dear all,

My apologizes for asking a question which is not so related to the list ...

Here it goes: I have a machine recently upgraded to FreeBSD-Stable 3.3
through cvsup+make world. Some weeks later I decided to give KDE a try, by
(cd /usr/ports/x11/kde11-i18n;make install).  Everything went smoothly
except the KDM, which seems couldn't let me login.  After entering the
correct userid and password at the KDM welcome window, then for a very short
period of time the screen becomes black, very short in fact.  After that the
KDM welcome window will just reappear again.

The password checking part is fine, if I enter the wrong password, some
error message will be printed on the KDM welcome window.

I've checked the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/xdm-config file.  No any error
message printed in the DisplayManager.errorLogfile (which is the standard
xdm-errors).  I also couldn't find anything in the ~/.xsession-errors file.
in fact, nothing at all in these two files.

I have a ~/.xsession file, which is a symbolic link to ~/.Xclients (mode:
0755).

The KDM was started by typing "kdm" when login as root.

Oddly enough, if I run xdm instead of kdm, everything just works fine.  I
can login successfully and whatever program specified in ~/.Xclients will be
executed, error message/output will also started filling the two error log
files (/usr/X11/./xdm-errors and ~/.xsession-errors).

I've searched the KDE mailing list, seems someone also facing the same
problem.  Too bad he said he had solve it, by looking at the two error log
file (xdm-error, ~/.xsession-error).

As ususal, any comments/hints will be much appreciated.

Thanks for your time!

Regards

Gong Wei [EMAIL PROTECTED]


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Re: KDM and FreeBSD 3.3

1999-10-13 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber

On Wed, 13 Oct 1999, Gong Wei wrote:

 Dear all,
 
 My apologizes for asking a question which is not so related to the list ...
 
 Here it goes: I have a machine recently upgraded to FreeBSD-Stable 3.3
 through cvsup+make world. Some weeks later I decided to give KDE a try, by
 (cd /usr/ports/x11/kde11-i18n;make install).  Everything went smoothly
 except the KDM, which seems couldn't let me login.  After entering the
 correct userid and password at the KDM welcome window, then for a very short
 period of time the screen becomes black, very short in fact.  After that the
 KDM welcome window will just reappear again.
 

You may want to search FreeBSD problem reports
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query) for instances of
kdm and/or kde; in particular, PR 8754
(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8754) may be of some use.


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