Re: KDM - Some minor buggies - All three are fixed!
On Thursday 13 December 2001 at 12:32 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
> >
> > Ivan (or is anyone in Debian listening?) They also might be
> > aware of a reason for leaving the vt7 out!
>
> it's in the default config file. you probably have a modified old
> version, so you don't get the new one automatically.
> > OK .. It looks like afterstep (session I tried) is found and then
> > it starts up /usr/bin/x-session-manager which is symlinked to
> > /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager which is symlinked to kde2
>
> hmm. x-session-manger is only a symlink to a concrete manager. so if
> it gets executed in the first place (instead of the selected
> session), it's already a problem.
> at best, you send me the session log. the sh output is sometimes hard
> to understand.
OK I shall do that. And thanks for the offer. I took a look at
/etc/alternatives and specifically at /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives
What stopped me was that there x-session-manager had two
things - kde and gnome, while x-window-manager had afterstep,
sawfish, fvwm2, twm, and wmaker. I was going to shelve this
until I had more time!
I am e-mailing you an e-mail with an attached file
.xsession-errors.hoodes_13_Dec.gz - please let me know if this
is sufficient information.
Oswald replied:
> you're missing the allow-user-xsession entry in your kdm.options file,
> as it seems.
Eurekea I found the problem. I don't believe entry is needed in
kdm.options. The reason it wasn't found was that optionfile was being
queried and optionfile has been changed to OPTIONFILE.
I changed the /etc/X11/Xsession line
optionfile=/etc/X11/Xsession.options
to
OPTIONFILE=/etc/X11/Xsession.options
and the kdm chooser works as it supposed to!!!
My Xsession.dpkg-dist file dated 19 October 2000 had the correct
definition of OPTIONFILE !!!!!
Oswald - thanks very much for the assistance. The most important
lesson I've learned is to take the time to view all incoming conf files
and implement!!!!
The problems fixed were:
1) KDM keyboard was frozen on initial display Fixed by: changing the
line in Xservers (adding vt7) to:
:0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
2) CTRL-R / System Console prompt was missing on KDM
Fixed by changing the line in Xservers (added tty1) to:
:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp
3) KDM chooser was not working, always executed KDE2
Fixed by changing the /etc/X11/Xsession line
optionfile=/etc/X11/Xsession.options
to
OPTIONFILE=/etc/X11/Xsession.options
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Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.com Seattle, WA
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