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Bug#122832: marked as done (kdm: please handle errors better or display them (X not starting))

Your message dated Wed, 10 May 2006 18:14:27 +0200
with message-id <20060510161427.GA984@mad.intersec.fr>
and subject line kdm: please handle errors better or display them (X not starting)
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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: kdm
Version: 4:2.2.1.0-6
Severity: wishlist

I had some wrong config line in /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers:

        :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X  -dpi 75 tcp vt7

which caused the X server not to start. The logfile entries were:

        Dec  7 12:57:23 tpo2 kdm[507]: Server unexpectedly died
        Dec  7 12:57:38 tpo2 kdm[507]: Server for display :0 can't be started,
session disabled

Nevertheless /etc/init.d/kdm did not complain:

        tpo2:~# /etc/init.d/kdm start
        Starting K display manager: done.

- nothing else happened.

When I:

        (strace /etc/init.d/kdm start 2>&1 ) | less

I see that the X server reports to STDERR (?) that it didn't recognize some option. I
failed to figure out who in the whole chain was responsible for supressing
STDERR so I'd miss that error message from the X server, but it'd be nice
to see some useful feedback in case /etc/init.d/kdm fails to start.

Otherwise the user is pretty much left in the dark about why the system
fails to start.

Thanks,
*t

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux tpo2 2.4.14-686 #1 Fri Nov 9 22:25:26 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii  debconf                1.0.17            Debian configuration management sy
ii  enlightenment [x-windo 0.16.5-4          The Enlightenment Window Manager
hi  ion [x-window-manager] 0.0.20010314-1    A keyboard-friendly window manager
ii  kdebase [x-session-man 4:2.2.1.0-6       KDE core applications
ii  kdelibs3               4:2.2.1-14        KDE core libraries (runtime files)
ii  libc6                  2.2.4-5           GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libjpeg62              6b-4              The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
hi  libpam-modules         0.72-9            Pluggable Authentication Modules f
hi  libpam0g               0.72-9            Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libpng2                1.0.12-2          PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt2                 3:2.3.1-16        Qt GUI Library (runtime version).
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.011006 The GNU stdc++ library
ii  xbase-clients          4.1.0-9           miscellaneous X clients
ii  xlibs                  4.1.0-9           X Window System client libraries
ii  xutils                 4.1.0-9           X Window System utility programs
hi  zlib1g                 1:1.1.3-5         compression library - runtime

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 02:16:54PM +0100, Tomas Pospisek wrote:
> Package: kdm
> Version: 4:2.2.1.0-6
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I had some wrong config line in /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers:
> 
>         :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X  -dpi 75 tcp vt7
> 
> which caused the X server not to start. The logfile entries were:
> 
>         Dec  7 12:57:23 tpo2 kdm[507]: Server unexpectedly died
>         Dec  7 12:57:38 tpo2 kdm[507]: Server for display :0 can't be started,
> session disabled
> 
> Nevertheless /etc/init.d/kdm did not complain:
> 
>         tpo2:~# /etc/init.d/kdm start
>         Starting K display manager: done.
> 
> - nothing else happened.
> 
> When I:
> 
>         (strace /etc/init.d/kdm start 2>&1 ) | less
> 
> I see that the X server reports to STDERR (?) that it didn't recognize some option. I
> failed to figure out who in the whole chain was responsible for supressing
> STDERR so I'd miss that error message from the X server, but it'd be nice
> to see some useful feedback in case /etc/init.d/kdm fails to start.
> 
> Otherwise the user is pretty much left in the dark about why the system
> fails to start.


  like any other *dm, you have :
  ~/.xsession-errors, /var/log/*dm.log, /var/log/{Xfree,Xorg}.0.log

  Moreover, kdm also has popups to explain the problem when it guess
which it is.
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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