Verner, SuSEconfig.kdm3 invokes sed for USERS and GREETSTRING from the displaymanager file. I know this because I just openned it up to look. It uses sed in one other place, but not with the 's in the command line. Open your displaymanager file up in vi and do the following: [ESC] :set list [enter] then look at those two lines. It might be worth while to recreate this file, even if that means typing it by hand, if nothing looks strange in those two lines. By strange, I mean unprintable characters, as well as extra "'s and ''s that could interfer with the sed script. -Alain On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 15:15 -0700, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Torsdag 09 juni 2005 23:55 skrev Verner Kjærsgaard:
Hi list and Alain,
- nothing changed, I took me a little while to get back to the list again.. - BUT I did notice that when I ran SuSEconfig after changing the "vk" to "", I got an ERROR relating to the sourcing of SuSEconfig.kdm3.
I'll translate as good as I can, the line says:
"sed: -e expression no. 14, character 55: unknown option to`s'"
The SuSEconfig.kdm3 file looks ok, it's not modified since the original installation of this SuSE - which was back in March or something.
Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.ispell... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.kde... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.kdm3... sed: -e udtryk nr. 14, tegn 55: unknown option to `s' Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.libxml2... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.news... Executing /sbin/conf.d/SuSEconfig.pango...
- does this give any meaning? Any hints?
Best regards, Verner
Torsdag 09 juni 2005 23:29 skrev Black, Alain:
Hi Alain and list,
- correction to my answer: - I cannot telnet nor ssh into the machine - which I normally can, the firewall in the machine is OFF, so no problem here.
- I'll try right away to change the "vk" to "". Remember, this (booting into level 5) may crash my machine, forcing me to do a rescue and all, it may take some time to come back to the list...
- I didn't setup the users. It's only me (vk) and no more. It's just that KDM lists all systemusers too...
- I have to get up very early in the morning to fly to Copenhagen, so I'll sign off now, - this being the reason for not replying to any postings that may come hereafter.
- I will, however try the "vk" -> "" trick right now. If I'm not back in a few minutes, the list will know why :-)
- again, thanks to all.
Best regards, 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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