I still haven't got kdm straightened out, so it is still necessary to use startx to begin a session, but the '/dev/null: permission denied' matter is now resolved. It appears that the '50-udev-default.rules' file had been removed by one or another of the updates that occurred at that time (toward end of April). I copied the file from my gde version of karmic and that cured the problem with the incorrect permissions for the /dev/null file, and login via the command line now works properly and it is no longer necessary to log on as root. Should anyone be interested. Since I haven't found the other problem, the one with kdm, I suppose this is still outstanding, though perhaps a matter for the kde people.
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