On Thursday 13 December 2001 at 12:32 am, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp > > > > Ivan (or is anyone in Debian listening?) They also might be > > aware of a reason for leaving the vt7 out! > > it's in the default config file. you probably have a modified old > version, so you don't get the new one automatically.
> > OK .. It looks like afterstep (session I tried) is found and then > > it starts up /usr/bin/x-session-manager which is symlinked to > > /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager which is symlinked to kde2 > > hmm. x-session-manger is only a symlink to a concrete manager. so if > it gets executed in the first place (instead of the selected > session), it's already a problem. > at best, you send me the session log. the sh output is sometimes hard > to understand. OK I shall do that. And thanks for the offer. I took a look at /etc/alternatives and specifically at /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives What stopped me was that there x-session-manager had two things - kde and gnome, while x-window-manager had afterstep, sawfish, fvwm2, twm, and wmaker. I was going to shelve this until I had more time! I am e-mailing you an e-mail with an attached file .xsession-errors.hoodes_13_Dec.gz - please let me know if this is sufficient information. Oswald replied: > you're missing the allow-user-xsession entry in your kdm.options file, > as it seems. Eurekea I found the problem. I don't believe entry is needed in kdm.options. The reason it wasn't found was that optionfile was being queried and optionfile has been changed to OPTIONFILE. I changed the /etc/X11/Xsession line optionfile=/etc/X11/Xsession.options to OPTIONFILE=/etc/X11/Xsession.options and the kdm chooser works as it supposed to!!! My Xsession.dpkg-dist file dated 19 October 2000 had the correct definition of OPTIONFILE !!!!! Oswald - thanks very much for the assistance. The most important lesson I've learned is to take the time to view all incoming conf files and implement!!!! The problems fixed were: 1) KDM keyboard was frozen on initial display Fixed by: changing the line in Xservers (adding vt7) to: :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp 2) CTRL-R / System Console prompt was missing on KDM Fixed by changing the line in Xservers (added tty1) to: :0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/X11R6/bin/X :0 vt7 -dpi 100 -nolisten tcp 3) KDM chooser was not working, always executed KDE2 Fixed by changing the /etc/X11/Xsession line optionfile=/etc/X11/Xsession.options to OPTIONFILE=/etc/X11/Xsession.options ________________________________________________________ Michael Hoodes http://www.hoodes.com Seattle, WA
