Re: KDM won't start
Hello again,
Good news... the problem is fixed. A friend of mine had the idea of prepending
"su -c root" to the start-stop-daemon line, thinking it might be a
permissions problem, and hey presto it works. Obviously init doesn't have
permission to start KDM with X or something.
Tom
On Friday 26 Mar 2004 20:16, lists@tomchance.org.uk wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I've got a problem with KDM on a sid machine set to unstable
> that is similar to the one filed in the bug tracker (#240027), and that
> can be traced through various threads on groups.google.com, with no
> solutions.
>
> 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.
>
> I'm completely confounded, and it's a pain because although I'm happy
> to login and run the init script, this machine is for my parents.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> Tom
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