On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 07:14, Anders Karlsson wrote:
Out of curiosity, what is the mysterious problem you are seeing? Is it that GDM will spontaneously just die with an error "gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0" and you just have to log in again? If so, I do not have a solution, but I do have a workaround. Either use XDM or WDM*. I have (touch wood) not seen the problem since I changed over.
Not exactly, but essentially. Basically what it looks like is happening is that this gnomesu program allows you to run Yast2 as root by entering the root password. I understand how that works. The problem is that apparantly when you start your Desktop or Window Manager with KDM the whole magic of allowing other users to contact the X Server is just kind of handled without your intervention. For some reason GDM doesn't do this *now*. I say now because it did before, but suddenly it isn't doing this any longer. Preston