http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872#c1 Will Stephenson <wstephenson@novell.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO CC| |wstephenson@novell.com Info Provider| |lmuelle@novell.com --- Comment #1 from Will Stephenson <wstephenson@novell.com> 2009-12-04 13:06:17 UTC --- Lars, is there an AD in Nuernberg I can use to reproduce this? -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872#c3 --- Comment #3 from Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> 2009-12-07 13:24:37 UTC --- I just checked this machine after updating to the latest of everything (including KDE 4.3.4) and doing a reboot. I was surprised to see this: root 1103 1 0 14:07 ? 00:00:00 /opt/kde3/bin/kdm root 1585 1574 0 14:07 ? 00:00:00 /opt/kde3/bin/kdm_greet Could it be correct that the kdm should be the one in /opt/kde3? On another system (same KDE 4.3.4 and all updated today) it is running /usr/bin/kdm. There is a /usr/bin/kdm on the problem system. It just seems not to be running. /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager has: DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm" Could this have anything to do with the defaults you get when the account is made, and before you log in? Perhaps that default has, as the last session, KDE3? The user was created fresh on the 11.2 system when logging in via ssh and was validated against the Active Directory. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872#c4 --- Comment #4 from Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> 2010-03-18 12:02:23 UTC --- I have now had a chance to duplicate (and correct) this problem. I did an update of a 10.3 system using the 11.2 install DVD. I let it do the usual updates to that install to get any bug fixes since the 11.2 release. And I got the original problem again. Luckily I was in the same room as this machine, and not across the county. The problem is that the 11.2 install does not update the DISPLAYMANAGER variable in /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager from kde to kde4. So, it is running /opt/kde3/bin/kdm, and not the expected /usr/bin/kdm. Changing the DISPLAYMANAGER variable to kdm4 solved the issue. At least it did on a machine as described in the paragraph above. I will have to see if the machine that prompted the original report also can be corrected with this edit. The reason I am uncertain is that I see that when I did the 10.3->11.2 upgrade, the upgrade process complained that it could not install samba-winbind. I ignored this, and let the install complete. This results in the old 10.3 samba-sinbind binaries being left on the system - and they are not compatible with the 11.2 install. But I see that the update the install does got a newer version of samba-winbind and installed that. So, perhaps the real solution to this bug is (1) edit the DISPLAYMANAGER variable and (2) update samba-winbind. OOC, why are there things left in /opt/kde3/bin after the 11.2 update? Especially things like kdm. And there are others. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872 http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872#c6 David Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |drankinatty@suddenlinkmail. | |com --- Comment #6 from David Rankin <drankinatty@suddenlinkmail.com> 2010-08-02 04:30:21 UTC --- Confirmed, The bug is in specifying 'kdm' as the displaymanager in sysconfig. While from 11.0 on, 'kdm' defaulted to kdm4 and to use kde3 kdm you had to manually specify kdm3, for some reason in 11.3 that logic was mucked up so that simply specifying 'kdm' defaulted to an empty-string being selected as the DM defaulting to the plain old xdm greeter. I have confirmed that specifying kdm4 explicitly will give you the kde4 kdm greeter. So for 11.3 the current state of things in sysconfig for specifying your display manager under /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager is as follows: kdm3 -> kde3 kdm & greeter kdm -> xdm & greeter kdm4 -> kde4 kdm & greeter So the code needs to be fixed so that 'kdm' gives you the 'kde4 kdm' as it has done since 11.0 up until now.... -- Configure bugmail: http://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=559872#c8 --- Comment #8 from Roger Oberholtzer <roger@opq.se> 2011-05-23 06:38:29 UTC --- The problem was an incorrectly set DISPLAYMANAGER variable in /etc/sysconfig. Hard to say if it still exists as a problem in subsequent releases of openSUSE. I think there have been other DISPLAYMANAGER setting errors in various packages since this was reported. The general issue of DISPLAYMANAGER being set wrong after updating packages, with various resulting problems, seems to pop up every couple of months. But I would imagine that this specific report can be closed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.