On Saturday 09 April 2011 06:53:18 Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 10:07:37PM +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > > I have installed the KDE 4.6.1 from http://qt-kde.debian.net/ onto my > > Sid. > > > > However, kdm will not start. After booting, when X is started, I'm simply > > dropped back into text mode. > > > > In /var/log/syslog I found the following error message: > > > > Apr 8 21:20:51 asus kdm: :0[1839]: Received unknown or unexpected > > command -2 from greeter > > Apr 8 21:20:51 asus kdm: :0[1839]: Abnormal termination of greeter for > > display :0, code 1, signal 0 > > > > Any ideas? Meanwhile I'm using XDM as a substitute. > > /var/log/kdm.log
I'm pretty sure was is the same as this bug: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113401 I fixed it by running (as root): $ chmod a+rx /var/run/xauth Anyway, if it is still helpful, here is the kdm.log from when the error occurred: ******************************************************************************** Note that your system uses syslog. All of kdm's internally generated messages (i.e., not from libraries and external programs/scripts it uses) go to the daemon.* syslog facility; check your syslog configuration to find out to which file(s) it is logged. PAM logs messages related to authentication to authpriv.*. ******************************************************************************** X.Org X Server 1.9.5 Release Date: 2011-03-17 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.38-1-amd64 x86_64 Debian Current Operating System: Linux asus 2.6.38.2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 9 01:30:35 CEST 2011 x86_64 Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38.2 root=UUID=8868ef43-6e5a-4220-85d0-d1a46ef41948 ro psmouse.force_elantech=1 quiet Build Date: 26 March 2011 03:32:34AM xorg-server 2:1.9.5-1 (Cyril Brulebois <k...@debian.org>) Current version of pixman: 0.21.4 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Sat Apr 9 09:16:15 2011 (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf" (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d" The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports: > Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols > Ignoring extra symbols Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server (EE) Query no Synaptics: 6003C8 (EE) ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad Unable to query/initialize Synaptics hardware. (EE) PreInit returned NULL for "ETPS/2 Elantech Touchpad" No protocol specified kdmgreet: cannot connect to X server :0 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201104090933.00118.torq...@gmail.com
