Re: KDM/KDE Login screwed after dist-upgrade today
On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 17:30 +0200, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> On tty1 I enter a
> /etc/init.d/kdm start
>
> After getting the KDM/KDElogin screen I type in my password for an
> underpriviledged user, try to login with that, the login screen
> disappears, the display is getting black, and I'm thrown back at the
> same login screen again.
>
> And yes, auth.log says that the login was OK, something like:
>
> .. session opened for user [ .. ]
> .. session closed for user [ .. ]
>
>
> The culprit must be in one of the packages next below, that I upgraded
> today. And IIRC this issue happened *only* after that upgrade:
[...]
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 920 May 4 15:23 x11-common.list
[...]
> ii xserver-xorg 7.0.16
x11-common 1:7.0.16 has a bug (that's been reported about a dozen times,
so don't bother ;) that removes /etc/X11/Xsession. Try
sudo dpkg -i --force-confmiss /var/cache/apt/archives/x11-common_1%3a7.0.16_powerpc.deb
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