Re: kdm not startking kicker/kwin properly
Solved my own problem. It seems that the kde packages failed to create
a link to startkde in /etc/X11/Xsession.d, so startkde never got run.
Creating that link fixed everything.
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 22:50, A.J. Aranyosi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having a weird kde problem (I'm a Gentoo user myself, but it's my
> girlfriend's machine, and I'm less familiar with Debian). She's using
> Testing, running KDE 3.2.2; these problems appeared when she upgraded
> from stable to testing. The symptoms are these (in order, from less
> bizarre to more bizarre):
>
> 1) Logging in from either kdm or xdm returns to the login screen (Big
> Shock: Some Error Caused X Startup To Fail) - same happens with an
> account created explicitly for testing;
>
> 2) ~$USER/.xsession-errors is empty;
>
> 3) /var/log/XFree86.0.0g and /var/log/kdm.log have no useful info about
> the error;
>
> 4) She has no problem logging in using a failsafe WM;
>
> 5) After logging in using a failsafe WM, she can run kwin and kicker
> from the command line and get essentially a fully-working KDE system;
>
> So there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with KDE, but for some reason
> she can't use it to login properly. It looks like kdm is not starting
> kwin properly for some reason. Any ideas what might be the problem?
>
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