Bug#365710: kdm: no login into kde possible

["H B" <hbemail@gmail.com>]

1) already done, didn't work
2) already done, didn't work
3) already done, didn't work
4) now done, didn't work

Greetings HB

On 5/2/06, Christopher Martin <chrsmrtn@debian.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 May 2006 04:51, H B wrote:
> > Package: kdm
> > Version: 4:3.5.2-2
> > Severity: important
> >
> > Some dist-upgrade during the last 10 days broke the login process.
> > Login into kde is not possible. The only obvious error message is
> > "May  2 00:57:14 localhost kdm_greet[6656]: Can't open default user
> > face" in
> > /var/log/messages. Login into other window managers (e.g. fluxbox) is
> > possible.
>
> Thanks for the report.
>
> Due to a bug in CDBS, all recently built KDE modules are rather messed
> up (package inter-dependencies are missing). To try to find the
> problem, could you:
>
> 1) Try another dist-upgrade, since a lot of X bugs have been fixed
> lately.
>
> 2) Try installing the kde-core meta-package. This will ensure that you
> have all of kdebase, etc., installed.
>
> 3) Try logging in to a KDE session with a clean, new, user account.
>
> 4) If all else fails, try reverting to kdm 3.5.2-1 (available from the
> testing archive).
>
> Thanks,
> Christopher Martin