> > This morning I upgraded the kde packages that were available > > for potato. After I locked my screen in KDE, I was unable to > > unlock it (log back in). I then killed the x-server and tried > > to log back in thru kdm...no dice. KDM would not let any users > > log in...even root. There were no problems loggin in to a > > normal shell however. I found this in /var/log/auth.log: > > > > Mar 9 10:30:19 cartman kcheckpass[499]: authentication failure > > for user uhlhorn [uid 1000] > > > > Anyone know what happened? > > > I never got KDM to work, it never accepted the password. But then > I have been using KDE from CVS, so I account such problems to > some kind of debianization that I miss out not doing it the > debian way. > > Right now I am trying to recompile the whole thing, this time > using the debian rules, and thus putting everything into the > debian places. Not that easy, since the sources appears to be > more updated than the debian rules, and sometimes have different > opinions. I somehow assume that debian changes goes back into the > KDE CVS tree. > Sometimes there is a debian.diff file in the debian directory, > which I apply. Sometimes successfully, sometimes not. the debian.diff is something new I started doing. It should apply to the current KDE_2_1_BRANCH branch of CVS. I can only guess it wont' compile against HEAD.
> qt-copy is extra horrible to compile from sources the debian way. > > If I find any problems, is there anyone interesting in knowing > what I did to make it work, or what failed? Note this does not > relate to the built .deb files, but to rebuilding them from KDE > CVS sources. I need to create a debian.diff for this as well. there are a few things I do differently... Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
