Re: KDM won't start

[Tom Chance <lists@tomchance.org.uk>]

On Friday 26 Mar 2004 23:52, Kent West wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 17:11, Tom Chance wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Friday 26 Mar 2004 22:25, Bokeron wrote:
> > > Is there a link to /etc/init.d/kdm on /etc/rc3.d? As I can remember,
> > > runlevel 2 is for the graphic login, I've never used runlevel 3,
> > > though, of course, that's not fixed, you can configure it your own way.
> >
> > I tried both runlevels 2 and 3, with no success. The problem lies in the
> > fact that init simply won't make [xkg]dm run.
> >
> > Tom
>
> Which probably means simply that X is not properly configured. What
> happens when you try to run "startx"?

As I mentioned in my first post on this subject, X and KDM work fine....

"If I start up my machine, it goes to runlevel 3, and fails to start KDM.
It prints the message saying "Starting K Desktop Manager: kdm." but it
doesn't do much else. If I login to the shell and run "init 3" from
runlevel 2, the same happens. If I then run "/etc/init.d/kdm start",
kdm starts up fine.

I've noticed that "/usr/bin/kdm" and "/usr/bin/kdm_config" show up
in the process table when init tries to load KDM, and they stay there
for some time, but there is no entry for an X server... KDM seems to
fail to load X when run from init.

I've tried everything I can think of, hacking the shell script
/etc/init.d/kdm, removing, changing and reconfiguring X, xdm and kdm, to
no avail. I wrote a new simple init script, "local", put into it
"/usr/bin/kdm", and added it as default, with no luck. There's this
black hole problem that I can't get any closer to when init calls kdm
via an init script."

Regards,
Tom