Bug#425526: kdm: finally started desktop in 3.5.7, but problem not solved

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Package: kdm
Version: 4:3.5.7-1
Followup-For: Bug #425526



I had major problems with my upgrade. 

After rebooting having installed kde 3.5.7-1, I would get the graphical 
login screen, but once I logged in I was left with the blue background 
and nothing else. The mouse moved and I could use ctrl alt F1 .. F6 and 
ctrl alt backspace but I could not get the desktop loading.

I finally returned to the desktop by some difficult to reproduce method 
of copying the /var/run/xauth/* file to ~/.Xauthority attempting to 
loging via VT7 and then in a console session setting DISPLAY to ":0.0" 
and running startkde.

I'm at a real loss on how to go about finding the actual problem and 
fixing things properly. Any suggestions?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-rc2 (SMP w/1 CPU core; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kdm depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]   1.5.13           Debian configuration management sy
ii  kdebase-bin             4:3.5.7-1        core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii  kdebase-data            4:3.5.7-1        shared data files for the KDE base
ii  kdelibs4c2a             4:3.5.7.dfsg.1-1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii  libc6                   2.5-8            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070516-1 GCC support library
ii  libpam-runtime          0.79-4           Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii  libpam0g                0.79-4           Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libqt3-mt               3:3.3.7-4+b1     Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070516-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6                2:1.1.1-1        X11 client-side library
ii  libxau6                 1:1.0.3-2        X11 authorisation library
ii  libxdmcp6               1:1.0.2-2        X11 Display Manager Control Protoc
ii  libxtst6                1:1.0.1-5        X11 Testing -- Resource extension 
ii  xbase-clients           1:7.2.ds2-2      miscellaneous X clients

Versions of packages kdm recommends:
ii  logrotate                     3.7.1-3    Log rotation utility

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