Bug#247193: kdm: reserve doesn't seem to work
On Monday 03 May 2004 21:18, Ross Boylan wrote:
> Package: kdm
> Version: 4:3.2.2-1
> Severity: normal
>
> I uncommented the first commented display line in /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers:
> :1 local@tty2 reserve /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :1 vt8
> and did
> invoke-rc.d kdm restart
>
> Despite this /var/run/xdmctl/ only showed xdmctl and xdmctl-:0.
Reserve is working fine here (can start other parallel session
with k-menu -> 'Start new session'. Nevertheless I only have
xdmctl and xdmctl-:0 too. When I start the first new session
xdmctl-:1 is created. So xdmctl-:? are only created when really
used and not when defined in Xservers.
>
> As I understand it, there should have been an xdmctl-:1 to which I
> could direct
> echo reserve
> to start up the second login screen.
From my tests it looks like you miss understood something ;)
>
> I also tried restarting my X server on vt7. This didn't help.
>
> I have xfree86-common version 4.3.0-7, and am in a mostly testing
> system.
>
> I may not have understood how this is supposed to work, but this is
> what I got from the docs.
I had a look at the /usr/share/doc/kdm/README.gz and
echo reserve > /var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-$DISPLAY
works fine here (as user log in on $DISPLAY). You should send
the reserve command to the xdmctl file responsible for your display.
I guess you get confused by the assumption that xdmctl
file should exist for every reserve setting in Xservers.
If you've some suggestion how to enhance kdms README please
send a patch. Otherwise I suggest to close the bug report.
Achim
P.S. The word 'seem' in the subject is an indication that
the report is better first send to debian-kde list to make
sure it's a bug ;)
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> Kernel: Linux 2.4.24advncdfs
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Versions of packages kdm depends on:
> ii debconf 1.4.22 Debian configuration management sy
> ii kdebase-bin 4:3.2.2-1 KDE Base (binaries)
> ii kdelibs4 4:3.2.2-2 KDE core libraries
> ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
> ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
> ii libfam0c102 2.7.0-5 client library to control the FAM
> ii libgcc1 1:3.3.3-6 GCC support library
> ii libice6 4.3.0-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
> ii libpam-runtime 0.76-19 Runtime support for the PAM librar
> ii libpam0g 0.76-19 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
> ii libpng12-0 1.2.5.0-5 PNG library - runtime
> ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.2.3-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
> ii libsm6 4.3.0-7 X Window System Session Management
> ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.3-6 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
> ii libx11-6 4.3.0-7 X Window System protocol client li
> ii libxext6 4.3.0-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
> ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
> ii libxtst6 4.3.0-7 X Window System event recording an
> ii xbase-clients 4.3.0-7 miscellaneous X clients
> ii xlibs 4.3.0-7 X Window System client libraries m
> ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-5 compression library - runtime
>
> -- debconf information:
> perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
> perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
> LANGUAGE = (unset),
> LC_ALL = (unset),
> LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
> are supported and installed on your system.
> perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
> locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
> locale: Cannot set LC_ALL to default locale: No such file or directory
> kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
> * kdm/default_servers_nolisten_tcp:
> * kdm/default_servers_100dpi:
> * kdm/kdmrc:
> shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
> * kdm/default_nolisten_udp:
> kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm
> kdm/oldconfig:
>
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