Re: killed gui

2001-12-26 Thread Jim Conner
LOL. I just searched the Caldera Knowledge base for "What Kde files can be deleted after update to KDE2? (Ref. #001203-0008)" and it told Bill to move /$HOME/.kde to /$HOME/.kdeold. I didn't know if it would work or not, but it's easy to try and easy to test. It worked. Now he gets to keep

Re: killed gui

2001-12-26 Thread Bill Day
ATTENTION Jim Conner is a kde god Just thought you alls hould know this... 8^) -- Bill Day ( a.k.a. BadMan )188133 http://counter.li.org irc.openprojects.net #linux-users ( Open 24/7 ) Our crystal tears now fall upon the ashes, but from the dust

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-26 Thread Jim Conner
I thought I recalled it being bantered around a while ago. I checked the old Caldera mailing list archive and found a few things. This one of note. http://www.mail-archive.com/users@lists.calderasystems.com/msg69403.html Might be an easy fix. Dunno if it will work, I'm not using eD2.4 anymor

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-26 Thread BadMan
26, 2001 8:47 AM Subject: Re: killed gui... If your box uses PAM for authentication, then all authentication appsneed to use PAM.Have you tried (temporarily) switching to xdm instead of kdm?  At this point, i'd suggest rebuilding all of KDE, and just doing a fullupgraed to wha

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-26 Thread Net Llama
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Re: killed gui...

2001-12-26 Thread BadMan
esday, December 26, 2001 4:48 AM Subject: Re: killed gui... Recently, somebody somewhere said:> Well, I have made absolutely no progress on this  other than starting> kde2 from an xterm inside an xserver(after I have logged in via a tty)>> Still a telinit 5 gets me m

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-26 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, somebody somewhere said: > Well, I have made absolutely no progress on this other than starting > kde2 from an xterm inside an xserver(after I have logged in via a tty) > > Still a telinit 5 gets me my kde2 kdm login dialogue, but cant for the life > of me figure out why I cant auth

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-25 Thread BadMan
Well, I have made absolutely no progress on this  other than starting kde2 from an xterm inside an xserver(after I have logged in via a tty)   Still a telinit 5 gets me my kde2 kdm login dialogue, but cant for the life of me figure out why I cant auth(I was using kde1 kdm to login for bo

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Net Llama
for eD2.4 > > - Original Message - > From: Net Llama > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 11:18 AM > Subject: Re: killed gui... > > > Unfortunately, i'm not much of an expert on KDE2. I just know that > kdm > requires the abilit

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
: Monday, December 24, 2001 11:18 AM Subject: Re: killed gui... Unfortunately, i'm not much of an expert on KDE2.  I just know that kdmrequires the ability to authenticate users, and it seems like thatability is failing.  You didn't comment on my question, who built kdmfor yo

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Net Llama
> Dec 24 09:55:20 linuxbox PAM-warn[3804]: service: kde [on terminal: > :0] > Dec 24 09:55:20 linuxbox PAM-warn[3804]: user: (uid=0) -> bill > [remote: ?nobody@?nowhere] > > back to diggin... > > - Original Message - > From: BadMan > To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Dave Anselmi
BadMan wrote: > Lonnie,Honestly I don't remember what I did, have been using the > kde2 for some time and installed via console.. How can I check my kdm > for kde2 to see if it has PAM support, since those are the only > messages I receive?Can a user specifically run kde2 from a console > the

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
  7:30am  up 144 days, 22:01, 16 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - Original Message - From: BadMan To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 9:32 AM Subject: Re: killed gui... BTW, the login only fails for GUI, all other services, i.e. mail, s

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
free...  http://www.daysdomain.com/tribute.html    7:30am  up 144 days, 22:01, 16 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - Original Message - From: Tim Wunder To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 24, 2001 7:34 AM Subject: Re: killed gui... Just a thought..

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Tim Wunder
; From: Tim Wunder > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 7:07 PM > Subject: Re: killed gui... > > Previously, BadMan chose to write: > > This is what I receive in tail -f /var/log/secure from the kde2 kdm: > > Dec 23 17:29:03 linuxbox P

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
  7:30am  up 144 days, 22:01, 16 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 - Original Message - From: Net Llama To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 8:35 PM Subject: Re: killed gui... I haven't been following this closely, so i apologize if this

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread BadMan
, 0.00, 0.00 - Original Message - From: Tim Wunder To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 7:07 PM Subject: Re: killed gui... Previously, BadMan chose to write:> This is what I receive in tail -f /var/log/secure from the kde2 kdm:> Dec 23 17

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-24 Thread Declan Moriarty
Excuse me pointing this out, but many different distros use many different methods to start X - hence the advice is not quite as pointed as you might like. What are you using? 2 start files are /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc (aka /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc), and /etc/X11/xsession. Distro

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-23 Thread Net Llama
I haven't been following this closely, so i apologize if this was already covered. Did you build the new version of kdm from source, or was it a precompiled binary? I'm wondering if you built if from source, you didn't include PAM support, or something like that? --- Tim Wunder <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-23 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, BadMan chose to write: > This is what I receive in tail -f /var/log/secure from the kde2 kdm: > Dec 23 17:29:03 linuxbox PAM-warn[2726]: service: kde [on terminal: :0] > Dec 23 17:29:03 linuxbox PAM-warn[2726]: user: (uid=0) -> bill [remote: > ?nobody@?nowhere] Dec 23 17:30:05 linuxbox

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-23 Thread BadMan
- Original Message - From: Tim Wunder To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 3:50 PM Subject: Re: killed gui... Previously, BadMan chose to write:> ok, I changed my path for inittab to look in /opt/kde2/bin/kdm and receive> my gui login f

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-23 Thread BadMan
0.00, 0.00 - Original Message - From: Anita Lewis Newsgroups: sxs.lists.linux-users To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 23, 2001 1:09 PM Subject: Re: killed gui... On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 11:40:57 -0700, Dave Anselmi wrote:> > Loo

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-23 Thread Tim Wunder
Previously, BadMan chose to write: > ok, I changed my path for inittab to look in /opt/kde2/bin/kdm and receive > my gui login for kde again, however, all users(including root) get a > failed login for the kde2 desktop > > little more info, all (both kde1 and kde2 we're working perfectly before I

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-23 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 11:40:57 -0700, Dave Anselmi wrote: > > Look at /etc/inittab. That's where init gets told what you want to do in > run level 5. Hopefully the fix is as simple as giving init the correct > path to your new kdm. And if it's not that simple at least you can change the default

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-23 Thread ajlewis2
[This message has also been posted.] On Sun, 23 Dec 2001 11:40:57 -0700, Dave Anselmi wrote: > > Look at /etc/inittab. That's where init gets told what you want to do in > run level 5. Hopefully the fix is as simple as giving init the correct > path to your new kdm. And if it's not that simple

Re: killed gui...

2001-12-23 Thread Dave Anselmi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well, I was attempting to remove kde1.1.2 to make my machine a > "leaner, meaner an faster machine" unfortuanately I boobed > someplace. > > x is still good, but cannot get to a gui for login now.. > > Using the line /etc/rc.d/rc.gui > > INIT: /opt/kde/bin/kdm: not