Mick <michaelkintzios <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > I'm running kde-meta 4.3.3 > > It's the kde screen where you put your login and passwd. > > It flashes for a second or 2, like the passwd is accepted, but > > kde cannot start. > > If I do not auto start kdm via rc-update, then I can log in as a user > > and X starts (twm?). > I suspect that you probably have fallen victim to the great conspiracy of > baselayout doing away with rc.conf and not screaming it LOUD ENOUGH to make > sure that we set up the XSESSION variable so that the appropriate windows > manager/DE is selected. See more here: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/224058 I read that thread, so I created the file /etc/env.d/90xsession with the contents XSESSION="kdm" (permissions 644) rebooting the Display Manager starts up, but when I log in looks like the passwd is accepted (still works via ssh) but the Display Manager Login Screen just returns....? > > > Before you reply, take a look for anything useful in /var/log/kdm.log. cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4e3386] 1: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x39) [0x48b539] 2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f395dfb8650] 3: /usr/bin/X [0x524a63] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libshadow.so(shadowRemove+0x33) [0x7f395c3635a3] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libshadow.so [0x7f395c363a54] 6: /usr/bin/X [0x4f6c69] 7: /usr/bin/X [0x522ff3] 8: /usr/bin/X(main+0x3f7) [0x431217] 9: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x7f395dfa5a44] 10: /usr/bin/X [0x430639] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting > Warning: Multiple names for keycode 211 > Using <I211>, ignoring <AB11> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server error setting MTRR (base = 0xe0000000, size = 0x01000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) cat /var/log/kdm.log Backtrace: 0: /usr/bin/X(xorg_backtrace+0x26) [0x4e3386] 1: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x39) [0x48b539] 2: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x7f395dfb8650] 3: /usr/bin/X [0x524a63] 4: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libshadow.so(shadowRemove+0x33) [0x7f395c3635a3] 5: /usr/lib64/xorg/modules//libshadow.so [0x7f395c363a54] 6: /usr/bin/X [0x4f6c69] 7: /usr/bin/X [0x522ff3] 8: /usr/bin/X(main+0x3f7) [0x431217] 9: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x7f395dfa5a44] 10: /usr/bin/X [0x430639] Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting Like I stated early, xorg.conf is empty, so maybe I need some minial entries in the /etc/X/xorg.conf file? James
