On Mon, 15 May 2000 10:25:08 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
This used to work perfectly, then I rebooted. Now the only user that can get a window manager is root!
Regardless which window manager I select in kdm, all I get is a gray screen, with the blue counsel in the lower right hand corner (this is the x server running with out a window manager). It is a useless state, without the ability to execute programs.
This looks much the same as my problem. After a fresh install of SuSE 6.4 I added a few users using YaST but only root is able to use the full KDE (init 3). Other users get the standard SuSE background with just a few icons on the left side for the drives. After searching and reading several scripts I found a logfile in the users home directory with several errors. It must be something with rights. The question is where to search... When a user logs in the file .xsession-errors contains: bash: /etc/SuSEconfig/profile: Permission denied grep: i: No such file or directory Creating Floppy icons... Creating CD-ROM icons... Creating Harddisk icons... Starting kcontrol -init...Done. No sound device available. kaudioserver not started. No sound device available. kwmsound not started. Starting krootwm...Starting kfm...Done. Done. Warning: Cannot convert string "False" to type ScrollMode Starting kbgndwm...Done. Starting kpanel...Done. Starting kimon...Done. Starting khotkeys...Done. Max Entries = 38 QDir::readDirEntries: Cannot read the directory: /opt/kde/share/applnk/SuSE PID could not get read. When root logs in he gets: grep: i: No such file or directory Creating Floppy icons... Creating CD-ROM icons... Creating Harddisk icons... Starting kcontrol -init...Done. No sound device available. kaudioserver not started. Some pixmaps are not valid: GimmickMode dissabled No sound device available. kwmsound not started. Starting krootwm...Starting kfm...Done. Done. Starting kbgndwm...Done. Starting kpanel...Done. Starting khotkeys...Starting kimon...Done. Done. Max Entries = 38 PID could not get read. Maybe this has nothing to do with the problem but it's all I have found so far. Pieter -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/