Re: kdm is dead

[Tim Kelley <tpk@iww.org>]

On Monday 19 November 2001 16:18, Geoffrey Hausheer wrote:


I had to make a symlink:

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/kdm -> /etc/kde2/kdm

then X will find your kdm config files


> I upgraded kdm a week or so ago, and Konqueror finally
> killed X yesterday.  Kdm comes up, but I don't get a
> background, and the user li
> st is filled with all the
> users in the system.  eww (but I've already seen some
> posts earlier this month on how to fix that).  Anyhow, I
> try to login, and get a message saying something like
> 'couldn't find /usr/X11R6/lib/kdm/Xsession' and what do
> you know, there is no /usr/X11R6/lib/kdm directory.  So
> figuring something was hosed, I killed kdm, and tried
> to use /etc/init.d/kdm start.  I get the 'Starting kdm:
> Done' message, but now it doesn't start at all.  I do a
> dpkg --purge kdm, and reinstall, but it still won't
> start.  Typing kdm from a console prompt doesn't do it
> either.  ps -A | grep kdm doesn't show anything.  So now
> I'm kinda stuck.  Anyone care to lend a hand?
>
> Thanks,
> .Geoff
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Protect yourself from spam, use http://sneakemail.com

-- 
 "The three things were damnably clever constructions of their kind,
 and were furnished with ingenious metallic clamps to attach them to
 organic developments of which I dare not form any conjecture."
                                               -H.P. Lovecraft
Tim Kelley
tpk@iww.org