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

[Mick]

On Friday 15 January 2010 15:25:09 James wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil <at> digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:38:27 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> Ok, I do not know what it is called.

It's called the kdm login manager (it is a Display Manager).

> 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 can also ssh into the system so the user passwd is ok.

Yep, I suspect xdm is not calling the correct display manager.

> > Before you reply, take a look for anything useful in /var/log/kdm.log.
>
> Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
[snip ...]

> Ideas?
>
> James

I suggest that you create the file /etc/env.d/90xsession.  Mine has this in 
it:

XSESSION="fluxbox"

You should probably replace fluxbox with kdm.  Also, I assume that you already 
have:

DISPLAYMANAGER="xdm"

in your /etc/conf.d/xdm file since TWM starts up.

As you can read in the thread I mention above there are other ways of making 
sure that the correct display manager is called.  You could try one of those 
if things do not work out as expected.

HTH.
-- 
Regards,
Mick