You are not logged in.

kdm doesn't start

Dear visitor, welcome to KDE-Forum.org. If this is your first visit here, please read the Help. It explains in detail how this page works. To use all features of this page, you should consider registering. Please use the registration form, to register here or read more information about the registration process. If you are already registered, please login here.

nono

Beginner

  • "nono" started this thread

Posts: 7

  • Send private message

1

Thursday, March 27th 2003, 12:41am

kdm doesn't start

i have set kdm as my default-display-manager. on startup, i can see the message "Starting K Desktop Manager: done" but after that it goes to text mode. with "ps -A" i can notice that kdm is not running. after i type "startx" my X works fine.

i tried "update-rc.d kdm defaults" and get "System startup links for /etc/init.d/kdm already exist." message. how can i get the kdm daemon to run ?

ps.- after "startx", with "ps -A" i can see
.
.
299 tty1 00:00:00 startx
311 tty1 00:00:00 xinit
312 ? 00:00:09 X
315 tty1 00:00:00 x-session-manag
340 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
347 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
.
.

rhorn

Beginner

Posts: 7

  • Send private message

2

Thursday, March 27th 2003, 1:40pm

Does /var/log/kdm.log have any useful error messages?

nono

Beginner

  • "nono" started this thread

Posts: 7

  • Send private message

3

Thursday, March 27th 2003, 7:50pm

rhorn:

thanks for answering. /var/log/kdm.log has this error message:

kdm: relocation error: kdm: undefined symbol: _XdmcpWrapperToOddParity
/usr/bin/kdm: relocation error: /usr/bin/kdm: undefined symbol: _XdmcpWrapperToOddParity

any idea?

rainbird60

Beginner

Posts: 1

  • Send private message

4

Thursday, March 27th 2003, 7:59pm

I got a similar problem with the new KDE 3.1.1 packages. Maybe kdeinit didn´t find some modules. Did you try the "ldconfig" command from a text console. Maybe KDM will work after that.

nono

Beginner

  • "nono" started this thread

Posts: 7

  • Send private message

5

Thursday, March 27th 2003, 8:55pm

rainbird60:

i've tried it without success. thanks any way.

jc

Beginner

Posts: 15

  • Send private message

6

Thursday, March 27th 2003, 9:54pm

Looks like a problem with gcc-3.2.x with older packages

nono

Beginner

  • "nono" started this thread

Posts: 7

  • Send private message

7

Friday, March 28th 2003, 12:37am

i'm using debina woody. i installed it on 3 computers, using the same installation cd's, and only in one of them i got this kdm problem.

rhorn

Beginner

Posts: 7

  • Send private message

8

Friday, March 28th 2003, 9:23am

Quoted

Original von nono

i'm using debina woody. i installed it on 3 computers, using the same installation cd's, and only in one of them i got this kdm problem.

Ok, which source for KDE are you using? Ralf Nolden's?

You may need to do a purge of the kdm packages and a reinstall (a simple reinstall may also do the trick.)

apt-get --purge remove kdm #optional, may not be necessary
apt-get --reinstall install kdm

nono

Beginner

  • "nono" started this thread

Posts: 7

  • Send private message

9

Tuesday, April 1st 2003, 3:19am

i've finally solved it. let me tell you what i did, hoping it could be helpfull to someone else:

i installed debian woody. since my video card wasn't suported by xfree86 4.1 (the version that comes with the woody installation cd's), i manually installed xfree86 4.3, and even though i was able to work with the x's, kdm never worked. what i did after was to re-install xfree86 4.3 from nolden's site (deb http://devel-home.kde.org/~nolden/X11 woody main) using dselect, and after that i reinstalled kdm (apt-get -reinstall install kdm). now everything goes fine.

thanks for your help, folks. it was very valuable. this shows that this forum is a great way to help each other.