Re: Unable to start kde session on display :1

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Kent West <westk@acu.edu>:

>> Does this mean that it actually starts 4 X servers?  That doesn't seem
>> to be the case, so I guess the "reserve" keyword makes the difference?

>> What does "reserve" mean in this context?  There wasn't anything about
>> it in the comments of the file.

> http://kde.cict.fr/kdebase/kdm/README

>> * reserve. A server marked as reserve is not started at KDM's startup time,
>> but when the user explicitly requests it. See "Command FiFos" below.

According to the above document and the /etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc file, I
should find some files called
  /var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-1
  /var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-2
  /var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-3

and by doing
	echo reserve 300 >>/var/run/xdmctl/xdmctl-1
I should get an X server with a KDM login box on virtual terminal 8. 

But there is no /var/run/xdmctl/ directory.  There is a /var/lib/xdm/
directory, but it is empty.

There is also a /var/lib/kdm/ directory, but all it contains is an
authfiles subdirectory, containing a single file with a cryptic file
name.