Bug#501405: kdm does not obey sttings edited by Login Manager
Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5
Severity: important
kdm does not read (or may be ignore) settings from /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc
and in the same time Loging Manager from Control center writes settings
there.
To reproduce this bug one shoud.
1. Install and login KDE (3.5)
2. Go to K Menu / Control Center / System Administration / Login Manager
3. Enter Administrator Mode
4. Change Greeting to, for example 'New Welcome to Debian at %n'
5. Press Apply
6. Make sure, this option were saved in /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc:
$ grep GreetString /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc
7. Restart X Server (Ctrl+Alt+Backspase)
8. See no changes in greet string
As far as I can understand all the settings from /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc are
ignored. Whis bug can be workarounded by manually changing
/var/run/kdm/kdmrc, but less exprienced users would not be able to find this
workaround... :-/
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.22 Debian configuration management sy
ii kdebase-bin 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii kdebase-data 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 shared data files for the KDE base
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-6 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-9 GCC support library
ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-4 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 1.0.1-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.1.5-1 X11 client-side library
ii libxau6 1:1.0.3-3 X11 authorisation library
ii libxdmcp6 1:1.0.2-3 X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii libxtst6 2:1.0.3-1 X11 Testing -- Resource extension
Versions of packages kdm recommends:
ii logrotate 3.7.1-3 Log rotation utility
ii xserver-xorg 1:7.3+17 the X.Org X server
Versions of packages kdm suggests:
ii kdepasswd 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 password changer for KDE
ii khelpcente 4:4.0.0.really.3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 help center for KDE
ii ksmserver 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5 session manager for KDE
ii menu 2.1.40 generates programs menu for all me
-- debconf information:
kdm/stop_running_server_with_children: false
* shared/default-x-display-manager: kdm
kdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/kdm
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