Re: kdm & X Problem

[Cameron Patrick <cameron@patrick.wattle.id.au>]

On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 08:51:00PM -0500, Robert Tilley wrote:

| As root I have tried the following with no results.  I explicitly choose kdm 
| when the dialog appears.
| 
|   debian-rtg:/home/tilleyrw# dpkg-reconfigure kdm
|   Not starting K Desktop Manager (kdm); it is not the default display manager.
|   debian-rtg:/home/tilleyrw#
| 
| Does anyone on this list have ideas about why X is (mis)behaving?  I want to 
| be able to choose my window manager as per a normal kdm.

I suspect it may be because kdm's debconf dialog is broken:
http://bugs.debian.org/218731.  If you reconfigure xdm (or gdm) and
select a DM other than kdm as the default, and then reconfigure kdm and
select kdm again, it should work.  Alternatively:

	# echo /usr/bin/kdm > /etc/X11/default-display-manager

Cheers,

Cameron.