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

[João Matos]

2013/4/9 Yuri K. Shatroff <yks-uno@××××××.ru>

> 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:
>
> [/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.
>
> 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.

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:

/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc line 63: exec: xterm: not found

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.

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