KDM is broken.

breakerfall · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:05 pm Post subject: KDM is broken.

Hola

I just rebooted my system to be greeted with a lovely xdm login dialog. As you can imagine I wasn't a happy bunny, what with the kdm background matching my desktop n' all.

I'm not sure what has caused the error. All I've done today is play around with sound. I've emerged arts, emerged gcc, removed arts completely (useless) and settled with good old nothing. What do I actually need something like arts for anyway? In fact, my guitar tuner will not work with arts running, I can't record anything with Audacity when arts is running (meaning I have to shut it down anyway) and now with it gone, sound seems to work fine. I have replaced kaboodle and noatun with Alsaplayer (the Jack sound server sounds interesting) and everything still seems to work. I'll probably find out sooner or later if something is no longer working with arts gone.

Anyhow, removing arts is the only thing that I can relate to this KDM problem, seeing as it's related with KDE. Whilst booting I see this:

BiggJ · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:15 pm Post subject:

Interesting ... emerged kde-3.2.0 last night with:

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -v kde

... and logged out of kde. When I tried to log back in with my normal (non-root) user, it looped me back to kdm. I decieded to restart, and when I did, I got kdm, but my custom setting were gone and I was still having the looping issue when trying to log into my user. I could log in to root fine though.

I mention this, because I wonder if they could be related? Did you just upgrade to 3.2.0?

--J

Valkyr · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:18 pm Post subject:

I also umerged arts yesterday, and my kdm is also gone, I get the default xfree login.
Using Kde 3.1.4

breakerfall · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:23 pm Post subject:

No, I haven't upgraded to 3.2

I upgraded to 3.1.5 about a week ago, with no problems I might add. But this issue only came to play about an hour or so ago. Unmerging arts is the only thing I can connect it with.

Did either of you two get the same error I saw whilst booting up?

Valkyr · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject:

Yes, I get the same error

BiggJ · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject:

breakerfall · Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2004 7:17 pm Post subject:

jessler · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:35 pm Post subject:

Add another with the same error ... Which: no kdm in (........

I just upgraded to 3.2 from 3.1.5. During the process of upgrading I had to emerge -C arts and reemerged arts.

I'm going to try and reemerge arts and see if that helps.

TheGrudge · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 10:44 pm Post subject:

have the same problem. I've tried to set the PATH by myself but nothing happened. when I edit the /etc/profile the new settings for PATH are only available after login...
I've edited the /etc/profile.env and set the ROOTPATH to /usr/kde/3.2/bin and it worked, but after an emerge /etc/profile.env was changed and the path was gone.
I'm not happy with editing the file over and over again....
any solutions?
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TheGrudge · Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject:

just emerged arts again and now it works!
I've checked the /etc/profile.env and there where same changes: