On 12/04/2012 09:53 AM, Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
> On Monday 03 December 2012 15:21:20 Baho Utot wrote:
>> I have found out that KDM does indeed need its own usr/group.
>> I now have kdm working as I can now login and boot the machine to run
>> level 5 from inittab and it works.
> I don't have a separate user/group for KDM, and it's working fine.
This is what I have and it will work, if I remove this it will fail
groupadd -g 135 kdm &>/dev/null
useradd -u 135 -g kdm -d /var/lib/kdm -s /bin/false -r -M kdm
&>/dev/null
chown -R 135:135 var/lib/kdm &>/dev/null
>> I have a Console kit error dialog on login saying Warning: Cannot open
>> ConsoleKit session: Unable to execute program
>> /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper: Success
>>
>> This I have traced to dbus not started, but I have dbus starting run the
>> init scripts at boot through the blfs-bootscripts.
>>
>> Also in the kdm log it has klauncher kdemain: No DBUS session-bus found.
>> Check if you have started the DBUS server.
>>
>> I know that dbus is indeed started but how does one check to see if a
>> dbus session exists?
>>
>> This is what I think this problem resolves to.
>> If anyone has a link to all this dbus stuff I would like to get that so
>> I can read up on dbus.
> KDM starts a consolekit session automatically, if consolekit was installed
> when building kde-workspace. I think your error is related to d-bus. The d-bus
> sytem-wide bus should be started in your bootscripts and will be running as
> user messagebus. The d-bus session bus can be start in various ways and will
> be running as the logged in user. I use a method derived from this link for
> starting the session bus:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/dbus_kde_integration
> which I found works well and results in a single d-bus session process.
>
> Basically, kdm launches this script when starting a session:
> $KDE_PREFIX/share/config/kdm/Xstartup
>
> And this script when stopping a session:
> $KDE_PREFIX/share/config/kdm/Xreset
>
> So these can be used to start/stop d-bus.
Ok I will look at this to see what I have there.
Thanks
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