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Re: KDM hang after login



On Tuesday 09 March 2004 02:06, Jonathan Byrne shaped the electrons to 
shout:
> Over the weekend I upgraded my desktop system to KDE 3.2.1 (from 3.1.5)
>  and did the same on my Thinkpad this morning.  Everything seems to be
> working fine except for one puzzling problem.  After logging in via
> kdm, it gets as far as the default KDE background and then just stops,
> with nothing on-screen except the background.  It does it on both
> machines, so I guess it can be called duplicatable.
>
> My temporary workaround is to use gdm and select a KDE session, which
> works without a hitch.
>
> The kdm version is 3.2.1-1, on Sid.
>
> Has anyone else seen/solved this problem?


Yes, but it was solved by selecting kde session in the kdm menu. And the 
waiting few minutes because it was recreating fonts due to a X's 
misconfiguration: add -dpi 100 (or whatever was before) 
to /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers



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