On 7/3/07, Philip Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I have been using KDE for a long long time.
> Suddenly it's not there any more.
> anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm.
> 1183499736: ::: completed emerge (4 of 12) kde-base/kdebase-pam-7 to /
That looks the most likely suspect. It's very recent (see bug 183887).
I have version 6 : try restoring that & see what happens
('emerge =kde-base/kdebase-pam-6').
You should also look in /etc/pam.d/ for further clues.
That did not help, but it reminded me of another fact I forgot to mention:
The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me that
my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid or something, and would be removed.
Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session.
I'm not sure how to enable it.
What is still there:
/etc/rc.conf still contains the line "XSESSION=kde-3.5"
/etc/X11/Sessions no longer contained kde-3.5, but I made another based on
the leftover kde-3.4; I'm not sure this did anything, as the symptoms did
not change.
ps -axlww shows that I'm running kde 3.5 version of kdm
But I can't coax it into starting a KDE session. My only choices seem to be
fluxbox and failsafe.
My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE that
I found in the Gentoo docs. But it used to work, and I'm not sure it's safe
to try to modify it to agree -- I'm afraid I won't know what to undo of the
old way.
--
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
