Re: kdm not working after upgrade from KDE 3.5 to 4.3.4
On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:45:27 Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 January 2010 12:09:47 Rémi Moyen wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > (this is my first post on this list, please excuse me if I make any
> > mistakes...)
> >
> > I have a Debian testing system on which for a long time I kept old KDE
> > 3.5 packages because I didn't want KDE 4 (I tried it around 4.0,
> > didn't like), I figured it was time I gave it another try. So after an
> > aptitude update, I did an aptitude dist-upgrade (something I hadn't
> > done since at least 6-12 months -- I did a number of updates of
> > specific packages in the mean time, though).
> >
> > aptitude offered me a solution which required removing a lot of
> > packages (old KDE 3.5 ones), installing a lot of new ones, and
> > updating some. The install went fine, without any error messages. I
> > now have a bunch of KDE 4.3.1 packages (version 4:4.3.4-1, the latest
> > in squeeze).
> >
> > I rebooted, got to the kdm welcome screen, obviously in KDE 4 style,
> > and logged in... only to see kdm pop again! No error message. I'm not
> > on this computer right now, but there wasn't any error message (nor
> > anything that looked even remotely related) in /var/log/kdm.log. In
> > the console, though, I can see when launching kdm some messages (sorry
> > for not having copied down the exact formulation) along the line of
> > "cannot copy file /etc/kde4/kdm/Xsession".
>
> This is a bug in kdm squeeze and sid. You have to log twice and it will
> work. Thierry
>
For me, KDE didn't boot using KDM at all (most likely a security setting).
However, KDM has an option to login without X and startx still works (no
solution but good enough for me till everything is fixed).
Jens.
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