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On 7/3/07, Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca> wrote: |
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> 070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> > I have been using KDE for a long long time. |
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> > Suddenly it's not there any more. |
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> > anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm. |
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> > 1183499736: ::: completed emerge (4 of 12) kde-base/kdebase-pam-7 to / |
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> That looks the most likely suspect. It's very recent (see bug 183887). |
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> I have version 6 : try restoring that & see what happens |
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> ('emerge =kde-base/kdebase-pam-6'). |
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> You should also look in /etc/pam.d/ for further clues. |
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That did not help, but it reminded me of another fact I forgot to mention: |
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The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me that |
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my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid or something, and would be removed. |
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Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session. |
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I'm not sure how to enable it. |
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What is still there: |
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/etc/rc.conf still contains the line "XSESSION=kde-3.5" |
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/etc/X11/Sessions no longer contained kde-3.5, but I made another based on |
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the leftover kde-3.4; I'm not sure this did anything, as the symptoms did |
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not change. |
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ps -axlww shows that I'm running kde 3.5 version of kdm |
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But I can't coax it into starting a KDE session. My only choices seem to be |
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fluxbox and failsafe. |
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My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE that |
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I found in the Gentoo docs. But it used to work, and I'm not sure it's safe |
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to try to modify it to agree -- I'm afraid I won't know what to undo of the |
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old way. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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