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Gary Kline wrote:

> AFter a  power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but
> # kdm
> 
> fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid.

Try deleting that file and reboot if you are starting kdm in ttys.

If that by itself doesn't work there are a number of other files to clean as
well, but they don't come into play until after kdm is running and you are
attempting to start a KDE session as a particular user.

-Mike