I updated KDE from 3.5.4 to 3.5.5 on SuSE 10.1 via "Update All" in YaST. Afterwards my settings from /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager are no longer honored by X/kdm add there are a couple of other oddities. I have DISPLAYMANAGER_REMOTE_ACCESS="yes" and DISPLAYMANAGER_STARTS_XSERVER="no" as I'm accessing it via a remote client ( LTSP ) and don't use X locally on the machine. After the update when KDM started, it did start a local XServer on vt7 and it showed the generic KDE login screen instead of the blue SuSE/Novell login. It also refused remote connections so I couldn't get a login screen on my client. This is what the logs showed: Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Unrecognized key 'EchoMode' in section [X-*-Core] at /var/adm/kdm/kdmrc.sysconfig:17 Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Multiple occurrences of section [General] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Multiple occurrences of key 'StaticServers' in section [General] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Multiple occurrences of section [Xdmcp] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Multiple occurrences of key 'Enable' in section [Xdmcp] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-*-Core] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-*-Greeter] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Multiple occurrences of key 'Theme' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-:0-Core] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: Cannot open XDMCP access control file /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess Oct 18 11:35:10 desktop kdm_config[15228]: No XDMCP requests will be granted I looked through /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc but there were no multiple occurences of anything. Also, file /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/Xaccess was not present. Then I tried to kill off x/kdm by switching to runlevel 2. It didn't die and using the rcscript "rcxdm stop" didn't work either. I had to manually kill kdm_greet, X, and kdm. I changed a setting in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and ran SuSEconfig to verify it was still working. It created a new /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. I changed the setting back and ran it again and /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc was replaced with a new copy identical to the one I started with. Then I symlinked /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc to the file SuSEconfig had generated /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and tried to fire it up again by going to runlevel 5 and then via the init script. This time neither X nor kdm even started. Logs showed: Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Unrecognized key 'EchoMode' in section [X-*-Core] at /var/adm/kdm/kdmrc.sysconfig:17 Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of section [General] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of key 'StaticServers' in section [General] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of section [Xdmcp] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of key 'Enable' in section [Xdmcp] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-*-Core] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-*-Greeter] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of key 'ShowUsers' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of key 'UseBackground' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of key 'UseTheme' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of key 'Theme' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-:0-Core] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of key 'AutoLoginEnable' in section [X-:0-Core] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:38:05 desktop kdm_config[15869]: Multiple occurrences of key 'NoPassEnable' in section [X-:0-Core] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:38:06 desktop kdm[15868]: XDMCP socket creation failed, errno 97 The install of KDE 3.5.5 had moved my KDE 3.5.4 kdmrc file from /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc.bak. I moved it back to /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and tried again. This time X and kdm both started. A local KDE login was still brought up but it had the normal blue Novell/SuSE login this time which I believe is configured by /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/backgroundrc. It also did allow XDMCP connections as I was able to connect from my client. However the logs still showed: Oct 18 11:39:06 desktop kdm_config[16484]: Unrecognized key 'EchoMode' in section [X-*-Core] at /var/adm/kdm/kdmrc.sysconfig:17 Oct 18 11:39:06 desktop kdm_config[16484]: Multiple occurrences of section [General] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:39:06 desktop kdm_config[16484]: Multiple occurrences of key 'StaticServers' in section [General] of /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc Oct 18 11:39:06 desktop kdm_config[16484]: Multiple occurrences of section [Xdmcp] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:39:06 desktop kdm_config[16484]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-*-Core] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:39:06 desktop kdm_config[16484]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-*-Greeter] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:39:06 desktop kdm_config[16484]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-:0-Core] in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. Oct 18 11:39:06 desktop kdm[16483]: XDMCP socket creation failed, errno 97 I checked the old logs and no kdm or kdm_config messages had ever shown up prior to the upgrade. I still have a local X server and KDE login running in spite of my settings in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager. The screensaver no longer diplays properly. It fires up but seems just change a few pixels on the screen and then stop. Also, I normally shutdown at the end of the day with something like "shutdown -h 10" issued from the console, then log out and power off various clients. Kwrited would normally throw up a message about the shutdown that was about to happen until I logged out. Now, it throws up the message every 60 seconds and causes a system beep each time even after all the clients are logged out and powered off. Any ideas what's going on? Why the duplicate config files in /opt/kde3/share/config/kdm and /etc/opt/kde3/share/config/kdm? Jason Joines =================================