KDM 3.4.2 /3.5.0: no user list / user images [solved]

aries · Last edited by aries on Sat May 13, 2006 9:45 am; edited 4 times in total

edit 13-05-2006
Solved:
1). for me by doing a complete new install with 2006.0
2). acc. to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107101:

vlado · n00b Joined: 02 Dec 2003 Posts: 36

Hi,
Could you check the /etc/env.d/ directory? There is file like 46kdepaths or something with similar name. Make sure it points to right directory - in your case /usr/kde/3.4. and run env-update.
Your problems seems to have something to do with KDE looking for the stuff in wrong place.

malone · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:45 am Post subject:

I had a similar problem when I upgraded to kde 3.4.2. IIRC, I deleted the kdmrc file, restarted kdm and it auto created a default file that worked. YMMV, but backing it up and trying can't hurt.
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aries · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks Vlado and Malone for your answers.

Malone:
46kdepath-3.4 seems to be correct: I compared it with the one on my other (correctly working) PC and they are both the same.
Result no user images

Vlado:
I have tried yout trick with kdmrc but this did not work for me: KDE did not start.
But with genkdmconf and some options one can generate a fresh kdmrc.
But also with the new kdmrc: no user images.

gentsquash · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:36 pm Post subject:

While it is not likely, did you check in

aries · Posted: Thu Sep 08, 2005 5:41 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Yes I checked that:

nahpets · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 11:59 am Post subject:

Did you ever solve this? I've been having the same problem for weeks and thought it would eventually go away with a bugfix or something... no luck.

I'm getting so fed up that I'm about to emerge GDM and whatever it pulls in just to get a decent looking login manager!
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Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until OOP! big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside.

aries · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 7:28 pm Post subject:

No I never solved it.
Nothing helped: other than the standard directories for the user faces, my old kdm config file nothing..

Besides you I not the only one: see this:http://www.kde-forum.org/post/54185/lastpost.html#post54185

I am used to it now ;-)

and stopped trying to find a solution: end of next month KDE-3.5.0 is planned.
Maybe I should post a bug report about this.

Is it not possible to emerge kdm-3.4.1 as login manager?

nahpets · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject:

I don't think so:

nahpets · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 10:26 pm Post subject:

The answer was in the link you provided:

aries · Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 7:50 pm Post subject:

It is already on my system

nahpets · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:38 am Post subject:

Maybe it's your GID value? I set it to 'users' (100) and KDM worked fine when I logged out. Your 'nobody' account may be the only member of gid 65534. I would guess that the account doesn't have read permissions in /usr/kde/3.4... in order to get the icons KDM.

aries · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 5:17 pm Post subject:

No that does not help.

I made user the primary group for user nobody, so that my passwd entry of nobody reads the same as yours:

nahpets · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:04 pm Post subject:

Did you try doing 'genkdmconf --no-old' to create a default kdmrc? I remember that a previous upgrade of KDM wouldn't work properly unless I did that.
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Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until OOP! big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside.

aries · Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 8:18 pm Post subject:

Yes, but this does not change anything with KDM-3.4.2

Added 23-09-2005:
The same for KDM-3.4.1

nahpets · Posted: Fri Sep 23, 2005 9:04 pm Post subject:

Well, I'm pretty much out of ideas...
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Let me guess, you picked out yet another colorful box with a crank that I'm expected to turn and turn until OOP! big shock, a jack pops out and you laugh and the kids laugh and the dog laughs and I die a little inside.

aries · Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2005 7:46 am Post subject:

OK. Thanks for your help!

I will enter a bug report on KDM-3.4.2 (although I seem to be the only one)

24-09-2005
Bug report entered. See https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107101

aries · Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:35 pm Post subject:

Installed kdm-3.5.0: still no faces

tried this:
installed kdm-3.5.0 of my P3 pc (running without problems) this did not solve the problem.
emerge kdm-3.4.1 : did not solve the problem.
set picture owners to root/users : no effect

Conclusion:
kdm is not the problem, it must be something used by kdm

Question what does: kdm use to show pictures?

libretto · Posted: Fri Jan 13, 2006 11:54 am Post subject:

I'd the same problem on my laptop and I solved that by switching from udev-070-r1 to udev-073 (~x86) and from ivman-0.5_pr2 to ivman-0.5_pre3 (~x86). Now kdm-3.4.3 comes up with icons as on all my gentoo boxes

BTW: That solved me some other problems, too.
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aries · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 5:39 pm Post subject:

It has no effect for me: at this moment I use udev-079, problems also happened with other versions.
I don't use ivman.

As soon there is a new udev version I will try again you never know ;-)

Now I use the circles theme at the KDE login window so I am not aware of the failing logo's

Thanks for your help, sorry for my late reply: I was very busy for my job.

meow · n00b Joined: 18 Mar 2003 Posts: 22

For me, the userid created with kuser starts from 500. But in kdmrc the settings are:

MinShowUID=1000
MaxShowUID=65000

so, i had to change my userid to 1000 before it shows up in the login screen. Hope that helps.

aries · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject:

Thanks.

This does not change anything: the userid's already start from 1000 on my pc.

But I'm used now to this problem ;-)

I use the circle theme for kdm now, so I'm not reminded to this problem before login

aries · Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:35 pm Post subject:

Finally solved! ...
Just did a fresh install :cry:

my harddisk ran out of space.