Re: Help! kdm loops
On Friday 20 April 2001 17:31, Ivan E. Moore II wrote:
> > Actually, the problem I've had with this lately, is with ssh. That whole
> > compiled with different ssl thingy. My solution has been to simply
> > remove ssh from the afflicted machines, as kdm trys to start ssh-agent,
> > and as there is no mechanism to prompt you for anything (i..e., when
> > something screws up) it simply dumps you back to the beginning. This
> > might or might not have anything to do with your error, but it's happened
> > to me on two different machines. Oh, I guess you could figure out where
> > it's calling ssh-agent and comment that out, but it was too much trouble
> > for me. I don't use ssh all that often (bad david, no biscuit!)
>
> /etc/X11/Xsession.options
>
> (which looks like this)
>
> # /etc/X11/Xsession.options
> #
> # configuration options for /etc/X11/Xsession
> # See Xsession.options(5) for an explanation of the available options.
> allow-failsafe
> allow-user-modmap
> allow-user-resources
> allow-user-xsession
> use-ssh-agent
>
>
> just change use-ssh-agent to no-use-ssh-agent or just remove that
> line..whatever
>
That's good to know. However, on machines where that's a problem (the libssl
mismatch) I can't use ssh at all, so uninstalling the package was the
cleanest way to get rid of that issue anyways.
D.A.Bishop
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