From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 9 16:35:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAA9016A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:35:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jive.SoftHome.net (jive.SoftHome.net [66.54.152.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4860343D31 for ; Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:35:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from larrykh465@SoftHome.net) Received: (qmail 11566 invoked by uid 417); 9 Apr 2004 23:35:14 -0000 Received: from charleston-.softhome.net (HELO softhome.net) (172.16.2.12) by shunt-smtp-out-0 with SMTP; 9 Apr 2004 23:35:14 -0000 Received: from [192.168.0.101] ([65.101.154.196]) (AUTH: LOGIN larrykh465@softhome.net) by softhome.net with esmtp; Fri, 09 Apr 2004 17:35:13 -0600 From: Larry Hammer To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 16:32:36 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200404091632.36956.larrykh465@SoftHome.net> Subject: RE: KDM always starts failsafe (Philip Payne) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2004 23:35:14 -0000 Now, whenever I try to login to KDE it always starts the failsafe i.e. a single xterm. It doesn't matter what session type I select in KDM, I always get failsafe so no KDE for me. If I start KDE using startx and a .xinitrc with "exec startkde" everything is fine and KDE starts. However, multiple users on the machine so having KDM working would be good. Any ideas what could be wrong?... if you need output from certain logs etc. just let me know. Thanks, Phil. ------------------------------ I just upgraded too, and ran into similar problem I couldn't even get to failsafe from kdm I turned off /etc/ttys tty8(kdm) and rebooted and started with startx and it came up from root acct I typed in kdm and got the same problemb so I restarted the x server and noticed a couple of warnings about not being able to find files Xreset Xsetup in /usr/local/share/config/kdm when I looked the files that used to be there were not there or empty except for read me. I deleted all files in this dir then from a consol I ran; genkdmconf --help genkdmconf --no-old all works well now hope this helps Larry