Re: KDM won't start

[David Meiser]

Thanks Nathan...  you were right on.  I read that, installed gdm and have gdm for the graphical login.  I still wish I had kdm, but I'll be patient and wait for the fix.

Peace,
DAVE

Nathan Poznick wrote:

Thus spake David Meiser:
  

XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (DRI trunk)
Release Date: 27 February 2003
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.6
Build Operating System: Linux 2.5.67-mm3 i686 [ELF]
Build Date: 06 May 2003
AUDIT: Tue Jun 10 01:19:38 2003: 4806 X: client 2 rejected from local h
ost
 Auth name: XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 ID: -1
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Protocol not supported by server
    

This is an issue with gcc 3.3 miscompiling parts of the key generation /
validation routines at -O2.

See any of several bugs filed about this on bugs.debian.org:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=196554