Re: [gentoo-user] kdm: can't login and start KDE

[Yuri K. Shatroff]

On 09.04.2013 17:13, João Matos wrote:
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> 2013/4/9 Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-uno@××××××.ru <mailto:yks-uno@××××××.ru>>
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>     Hello gentoo-users,
>
>     Yesterday I completed a world update (amd64, unstable) and now I
>     can't login with kdm.
>     (I have kdm set as display manager in /etc/conf.d/xdm, and started
>     from default runlevel)
>     After booting, the login screen appears as usual. I type
>     login/password and then a glimpse of X's default x-shaped pointer on
>     black background appears, returning to the login screen.
>     I don't get any sensible errors, neither in kdm.log nor in messages,
>     all I see is:
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>     [/var/log/kdm.log]
>     -----------------------------
>     klauncher(21958) kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found. Check if you
>     have started the DBUS server.
>     kdeinit4: Communication error with launcher. Exiting!
>     kdmgreet(21952)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): KSystemTimeZones: ktimezoned
>     initialize() D-Bus call failed:  "Not connected to D-Bus server"
>
>     kdmgreet(21952)/kdecore (K*TimeZone*): No time zone information
>     obtained from ktimezoned
>     -----------------------------
>
>     But I guess this is unrelated, since dbus is running (and restarting
>     it doesn't help, nor does restarting xdm)
>
>     Each time login fails I also see this in
>     [/var/log/messages]
>     -----------------------------
>     Apr  9 11:33:53 localhost kdm: :0[20396]: pam_unix(kde:session):
>     session opened for user yks by (uid=0)
>     Apr  9 11:33:54 localhost kdm: :0[20396]: pam_unix(kde:session):
>     session closed for user yks
>     -----------------------------
>
>     No other logs appear to change.
>
>     Needless to say that kdm 4.10.1 and earlier worked properly, and no
>     configuration files were changed during the last update.
>
>     As a workaround, I just typed startx on the console (with startkde
>     in .xinitrc) and KDE started up, so I assume the problem is
>     somewhere around kdm.
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>     Any ideas?
>
>     P.S. I had no problem with networking and udev which got updated
>     from 197-r9 to 200 and the network interface name didn't change from
>     eth0 (the 80-*rules file was a regular file full of commented text)
>
>     --
>     Best wishes,
>     Yuri K. Shatroff
>
>
> Hi. I have a similar problem here, since the last update from kde 4.9.
> But I can login with my user, I just cant using any new user. I found
> this problem easily, because I have a guest account, and I erase
> "/home/guest/*" once in a while. Since two months ago this account is
> useless.

that's a little different problem ;) I remember the related discussion 
on this mailing list.

> But my kde is istill 4.10.1. It seemed nobody had the same problem, and
> my problem was not that bad because my own account was working pretty well.
>
> The error is exactly the same of yours, when I try to login the guest
> account, but when I try "startx" a get the following:
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> /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc line 63: exec: xterm: not found

Can this be solved by putting an executable .xinitrc into the user's 
home dir?
As for me, I had to put
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exec /usr/bin/startkde
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so that startx would start kde.

> I don't think it will help, because I get the same error if I try the
> "working account".
>
> I'm using systemd, so I tried to remove consolkit support from kdm, but
> it didn't help.

I also have a suspicion it has to do with consolekit, but there is no 
simple way to make sure.

>
> Is anyone else facing a similar problem?
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>
> --
> João de Matos
> Linux User #461527
> Graduado em Engenharia de Computação
> UEFS - Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana


-- 
Best wishes,
Yuri K. Shatroff