KDM doesn't remember username

Maf · Guru Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 309

Hi, after last update to kdm-4.6.3-r1, both fields at the login screen are empty, even if I logged myself successfully before. How to change this behaviour?

bas89 · Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 7:35 pm Post subject:

Just open the KDM settings in KDE System Settings and change the behaviour in the last tab. Maybe you did upgrade your kdm configuration file.

pingufunkybeat · l33t Joined: 01 Dec 2004 Posts: 610

chown kdm.kdm /var/lib/kdm/kdmsts

The long story:

The last login state is stored under /var/lib in a file called kdmsts.

The runtime files were migrated from /var/lib/kdm-4.6 to /var/lib/kdm during the last update . It should have migrated everything, but delete the old directories anyway.

At the same time, the owner for /var/lib/kdm/kdmsts changed from kdm.kdm to root.root, and if kdm is executed as user, it cannot read or write to that file. So it doesn't remember the last user.

Kollin · Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:01 pm Post subject: