Verner, No worries on the name. What does it do if you change KDM_USERS="vk" in the displaymanager to KDM_USERS=""? Other than that my files look very similar. If you send me the steps that you went through for adding the users, I have a desktop system running 9.3/KDE that I can duplicate them on and let you know if I get the same results. -Alain. -----Original Message----- From: Verner Kjærsgaard [mailto:vk@os-academy.dk] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:42 PM To: suse-kde@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-kde] Odd KDM behaving, all users listed, profiles Torsdag 09 juni 2005 23:29 skrev Black, Alain: Oops, - Alain, sorry for not getting your name right in the first reply... - Verner

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@os-academy.dk] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:14 PM To: suse-kde@suse.com 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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