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Re: No graphical login (woody)



on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:49:30PM +0100, Andreas Goesele (Goesele@hfph.mwn.de) wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> right after upgrading to woody I still could use kdm to log in into my
> machine. But some days later this wouldn't work any longer: After
> login in as authorized user just restarts kdm. (Anyway instead of
> going into KDE I get the login screen again.)
> 
> I can start X (with startx) from the console without any problem, but
> neither kdm nor xdm work.
> 
> As this is a problem many people seem to have I went through some of
> the suggestions I found, but nothing solved my problem: I deleted
> 90xfree86-common_ssh-agent and changed the one line in
> 99xfree86-common_start from "exec $realstartup" to exec $REALSTARTUP -
> no success.
> 
> xdm reports the following errors:
> 
> XBanner: Could not get the font, using 'fixed' (that's just for
> starting up xdm)
> 
> and than for every try to log in:
> 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: xrdb: command not found
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: egrep: command not found
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: xmodmap: command not found
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: grep: command not found
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: grep: command not found
> /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: grep: command not found
> twm: No such file or directory
> 
> This looks to me as if there are either permissions or a path missing,

Likewise.  Or missing programs.

> but that's just my uninformed impression and wouldn't know how to
> either add necessary permissions (which?) or where to add the right
> path variables (again: where?).
> 
> BTW, I'm using:
> XFree86 Version 3.3.6a / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> Release Date: xx November 2000

See the page below and use it to debug your issue.

    http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html

Peace.

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