[gentoo-user] Re: kde wont log in user

[James]

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