Hi Fergus/All Thanks for you comments. I've answered below after your points. Cheers John Quoting Fergus Wilde <fwilde@chethams.org.uk>:
On Friday 10 September 2004 09:10, js1@liverpool.ac.uk wrote:
Hi All I'm using SuSE 8.1 prof and am now in a pickle.
I've just upgraded to the latest version of KDE (3.3) from 3.2 using synaptic and everything went perfectly. However, when I restart from a fresh boot of the system or from "rcxdm start" the login window never comes up and the program returns to the console in both cases.
One thing you might wan to try is making sure all your access files are cleared out of /tmp. Anything called mcop or dcop or which have your username ought to go, as I remember. Have you verified whether these variables are in fact duplicated in the files concerned? If so, I'd copy the originals to a backup name and deduplicate. 9.1 doesn't have /etc/rc.conf any more, but I don't know when it went.
I had in fact deleted all these files and also the equivalent ones in my home directory. I've also located the offending double entries and commented them out. Unfortunately it make no difference. The offending double entries appear in both the displaymanager and windowmanager files in /etc/sysconfig. However, should I have both these files?
If that doesn't work, I'd try setting up another ordinary user and seeing if you can log in with that identity.
Good idea but the problem is that you need to be in root to issue the command "rcxdm start" and then the opening login window never appears so I can't actually login as another user. Or am I missing something?
Somebody who can remember more details may tell you more, but I'm pretty sure you won't break anything trying those.
The system log only reports: "Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 127, signal 0"
I also received an email to root after running SuSEConfig telling me: "the following variables seem to be doubled in /etc/rc.config and/or the files in /etc/sysconfig: /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: KDM_GREETING="" /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: KDM_GREETING="" /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: KDM_SHUTDOWN="auto" /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: KDM_SHUTDOWN="auto" /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: KDM_USERS="" /etc/sysconfig/displaymanager: KDM_USERS="" please specify them correctly"
These two error reports seem related but I can't locate how to fix them up and also whether that is the explanation as to why my desktop is not starting.
I took the rather studid step (as I later found out) of reinstalling the version of KDE (3.0.3) that came with SuSE 8.1 prof using yast2 and then doing a new install of 3.3. However, the final result was the same, KDE 3.3 doesn't start.
I'm desparate to get it up and running as term starts very soon and I still have a lot of preparation to do so has anyone got any ideas as to how to resolve this problem? I've had to resort to Windows in order to post this email message. John Satherley
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