Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-17 Thread Kim Attree
Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Mike, I had an 'exec bash' in my $HOME/.profile and removing this allowed me to run ./Xsession default and push me into KDE ! KDM though - still refuses to pass to KDE I'm reluctant to give up

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-17 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Tuesday, 17. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Mike, I had an 'exec bash' in my $HOME/.profile and removing this allowed me to run ./Xsession default and push me into KDE ! KDM though - still refuses to pass to

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-17 Thread Kim Attree
Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Tuesday, 17. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Mike, I had an 'exec bash' in my $HOME/.profile and removing this allowed me to run ./Xsession default and push me into KDE !

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Kim Attree
Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db (touched to make sure it's writable on the diskless workstation - it is) and the KDM still

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db (touched to make sure it's writable on the diskless workstation

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Kim Attree
Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Kim Attree
Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-16 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Monday, 16. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Mike, I had an 'exec bash' in my $HOME/.profile and removing this allowed me to run ./Xsession default and push me into KDE ! KDM though - still refuses to pass to KDE I'm reluctant to give up on the shell angle already - can you try

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-13 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db (touched to make sure it's writable on the diskless workstation - it is) and the KDM still refuses to pass to Xorg/KDE. Any Other

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-12 Thread Kim Attree
Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db (touched to make sure it's writable on the diskless workstation - it is) and the KDM still refuses to pass to Xorg/KDE. Any Other Ideas ??? Make sure you have a hostname set

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote: I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db (touched to make sure it's writable on the diskless workstation - it is) and the KDM still refuses to pass to Xorg/KDE. Any Other Ideas ??? Make sure you have a hostname set (in rc.conf or via dhcp) and

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-09 Thread Kim Attree
I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db (touched to make sure it's writable on the diskless workstation - it is) and the KDM still refuses to pass to Xorg/KDE. Any Other Ideas ??? Thanks Kim Attree Kim Attree wrote: Danny, thought of that already, /root/.kde is symbolically linked to

Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-05 Thread Kim Attree
Hey Guys, hoping you can help. I Have a FREEBSD 6.2-STABLE recently supped and compiled, which is a diskless environment. The workstation I'm testing on is working fine, Xorg 7.2 is running perfectly as is KDE (I start it up with startx from a user login). However, when I run KDM as root, and

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-05 Thread Kim Attree
Ait, I use a normal user to login into KDM, it's just run as root, well because you can't run KDM as a normal userI've disabled the ability to login as root on KDM as well Thanks Kim ait wrote: I'm not an expert but it seems to me that KDM system won't let you login as root ;) It's a

Re: Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

2007-07-05 Thread Kim Attree
Danny, thought of that already, /root/.kde is symbolically linked to /var/.kde, which has the contents of /root/.kde and is populated at boot. That /var/.kde is root writable too... Thanks Kim Attree Danny Braniss wrote: don't know if this is the problem, but usualy, in a diskless env. / is