ok, so far, no suggestions have helped, I'm still missing the ability to switch users from the menu. I have Lock session and log out, but no switch user, and I haven't found any control center menus to turn it on. I searched the archives, SUSE help center, and google, with no luck. Anyone?? does anyone know what RPM or package that is in? is this a KDE issue, or SUSE ? I am running SUSE 9.2 with the latest YOU updates installed. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc
Silly question, maybe... Are there other users? If you log out, do you see a list of other users? Can you log in as a different user? Is it that you are starting X directly with startx instead of a login manager like kdm or xdm(running as root)? If you click the logout and go to a console, your not using kdm or xdm. B-) On Thursday 31 March 2005 11:23 am, Paul Cartwright wrote:
ok, so far, no suggestions have helped, I'm still missing the ability to switch users from the menu. I have Lock session and log out, but no switch user, and I haven't found any control center menus to turn it on. I searched the archives, SUSE help center, and google, with no luck. Anyone?? does anyone know what RPM or package that is in? is this a KDE issue, or SUSE ? I am running SUSE 9.2 with the latest YOU updates installed. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 X-Request-PGP: http://home.comcast.net/~p.cartwright/wsb/key.asc
Paul, I have experienced this problem in the past, and out of this experience I might be able to suggest one more thing to look at, if you already have made sure that your XSessions file has all necessary entries. But please take into account that I am still running SuSE 8.2, recently updated to kDE 3.4. El Jue 31 Mar 2005 13:23, Paul Cartwright escribió:
ok, so far, no suggestions have helped, I'm still missing the ability to switch users from the menu. I have Lock session and log out, but no switch user, and I haven't found any control center menus to turn it on.
Have a look at the /var/run/xdmctl directory. This is where the desktop manager process writes its socket file, so it is writable for root, with 755 permission flags set. Become root, change into the directory an try to write a file ('touch abc'). I have once experienced I/O-errors in this directory when trying to create a new file, presumably through ReiserFS-related problems. When I wasn't able to create a file in this directory, I just renamed it (I couldn't delete it, either) and created a new directory xdmctl. This made the KDE switch user menu entry reappear, after restarting kdm ('rcdkm restart' as root). It's a far shot, but who knows - maybe you've inherited my bad luck of old. Regards, -- Andreas Philipp Noema Ltda. Bogotá, D.C. - Colombia http://www.noemasol.com
Paul Cartwright wrote:
ok, so far, no suggestions have helped, I'm still missing the ability to switch users from the menu. I have Lock session and log out, but no switch user, and I haven't found any control center menus to turn it on. I searched the archives, SUSE help center, and google, with no luck. Anyone?? does anyone know what RPM or package that is in? is this a KDE issue, or SUSE ? I am running SUSE 9.2 with the latest YOU updates installed.
I have kde-3.4.0 installed from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/linux/suse/apt/SuSE/9.2-i386/RPMS.kde/ and it has in the menu "Switch user" and under that "Lock Current && Start New Session", "Start New Session", plus other selections for tty's. I can't remember if it was available in stock 9.2. These are the commands it generates:- 25015 ? SL 0:00 \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -nolisten tcp :1 vt8 -auth /var/lib/xdm/authdir/A:1-2Qdai9 25019 ? S 0:00 \_ -:1 25068 ? S 0:01 \_ /opt/kde3/bin/kdm_greet arrabas:/ftp/mar05 # l /var/lib/xdm/authdir/ total 8 drwx------ 3 root root 144 2005-04-01 00:58 ./ drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 72 2004-10-04 19:06 ../ -rw------- 1 root root 44 2005-03-31 13:00 A:0-qmd4BU -rw------- 1 root root 44 2005-04-01 00:58 A:1-2Qdai9 You could set up a script with "X :1 vt8 &" to test it out pending final resolution or upgrading to 3.4.0. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce ... Hamradio License G3VBV, Keen licensed Private Pilot Retired Large IBM and Sun Servers Tech Support Specialist Microsoft Windows Free Zone - Linux for all Computing Tasks
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