--- Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> >Got a problem with KDE after upgrading woody to
> sarge.
> >
> >
> <snip>
>
> >However on login, the X server appears to shut down
> >(and gdm promptly re-starts it) -- so I log in and
> >after some flashing of screens for a second or two
> I
> >find myself back at the login screen again.
> >
> >
> Is it just KDE? Try a different wm/environment.
>
> Is it just from gdm? What happens if you kill gdm
> and try "startx"?
>
> Is it just your user? What if you try as a different
> user?
>
> Perhaps you need to move/delete any KDE stuff from
> your home directory?
>
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> Kent
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Thanks for the ideas -- a couple of things I should
have mentioned in the original post:
If I select a GNOME session then I log in OK (although
it's complaining about keyboard settings being missing
/ screwed up, even though the keyboard proceeds to
work fine). I'm not surprised as I never used GNOME
session before and so never bothered to configure it
properly.
If I try as KDE there are no errors in the X server
log but the KDE error log shows it couldn't find the
KDE2 program and thus bombs. It's doing something
like:
if [! -n `which "$WM"`]; then
echo "Can't find ...{can't remember exact words},
exiting..."
exit 1
fi
And that's the error in my .kde2-errors file in my
home dir. $WM is set at the start of the script to
kde2.
I noticed a kde2.sh in /etc/X11/kde2 -- what does that
do and if I tinker with this shell script to point at
that instead will I do more damage?
So yes it seems to be just KDE. As to whether it's
just gdm I don't know as I haven't tried another
display manager -- maybe will uninstall gdm and try
kdm as a next step, see if that gets me further. But
I'd still like to know, for education purposes, what
the problem actually is here...
Cheers
Mark
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