on Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 09:49:30PM +0100, Andreas Goesele ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > > right after upgrading to woody I still could use kdm to log in into my > machine. But some days later this wouldn't work any longer: After > login in as authorized user just restarts kdm. (Anyway instead of > going into KDE I get the login screen again.) > > I can start X (with startx) from the console without any problem, but > neither kdm nor xdm work. > > As this is a problem many people seem to have I went through some of > the suggestions I found, but nothing solved my problem: I deleted > 90xfree86-common_ssh-agent and changed the one line in > 99xfree86-common_start from "exec $realstartup" to exec $REALSTARTUP - > no success. > > xdm reports the following errors: > > XBanner: Could not get the font, using 'fixed' (that's just for > starting up xdm) > > and than for every try to log in: > > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: xrdb: command not found > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: egrep: command not found > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: xmodmap: command not found > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: grep: command not found > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: grep: command not found > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession: grep: command not found > twm: No such file or directory > > This looks to me as if there are either permissions or a path missing,
Likewise. Or missing programs.
> but that's just my uninformed impression and wouldn't know how to
> either add necessary permissions (which?) or where to add the right
> path variables (again: where?).
>
> BTW, I'm using:
> XFree86 Version 3.3.6a / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> Release Date: xx November 2000
See the page below and use it to debug your issue.
http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html
Peace.
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