Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (132 mails)

["Black, Alain" <ablack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Verner,

Can you telnet/ssh into the machine from another computer when it's hung at the blue screen?

Check your /etc/sysconfig/windowmanager and /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager.

For KDE windowmanager should have:
DEFAULT_WM="kde"

And displaymanager should contain:
DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"

The only times I've had a similar experience is when those got changed to a different window manager, twm or something similar.

Also, check the dates on those files to ensure that they haven't been updated anytime recently.

-Alain.

-----Original Message-----
From: Verner Kjærsgaard [mailto:vk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:14 PM
To: suse-kde@xxxxxxxx
Subject: [suse-kde] Odd KDM behaving, all users listed, profiles

Hi list,

- I've ended up in a mess, now hear this...

My SuSE9.3/KDE plain vanilla used to work like a breeze - with profiles and 
all. Somehow, while setting up the ThinkPad to work in a temporarily new 
wireless environment, I landed at this scenario:

a)
I edit /etc/inittab into runlevel 3. This causes a (as expected) textmode 
boot-up from where I can log in and to "startx". All is normal and life is 
good. 
However, if I (in textmode) fire up "mc", I get the most strange linedrawing 
characters. I.e., "mc" is useable, but looks very odd.

b) 
I edit /etc/inittab or  YAST into runlevel 5. Reboot.
Now I get KDM with a list of ALL users and systemusers (from /etc/passwd I 
think) listed. If lucky, with a working keyboard and I can log in. But, alas, 
only to a blue background with a very primitive Xterm - that doesn't respond 
to the keypad. I cannot do CTRL-ALT-F1/F2 etc., to get a shell. I cannot do 
anything - only switch off the machine. This leaves the runlevel set to 5, so 
a rescue CD is in order. Once fixed I'm back in scenario a).

Question: where does KDM get its list of users from, where is (if any) its 
configuration file? 
How to get back normal life again?

And, oh, thank you in advance and sorry for this long writing!


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Med venlig hilsen/Best regards
Verner Kjærsgaard
Open Source Academy
www.os-academy.dk
Denmark
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