Hello again, Good news... the problem is fixed. A friend of mine had the idea of prepending "su -c root" to the start-stop-daemon line, thinking it might be a permissions problem, and hey presto it works. Obviously init doesn't have permission to start KDM with X or something.
Tom On Friday 26 Mar 2004 20:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Greetings, > > I've got a problem with KDM on a sid machine set to unstable > that is similar to the one filed in the bug tracker (#240027), and that > can be traced through various threads on groups.google.com, with no > solutions. > > If I start up my machine, it goes to runlevel 3, and fails to start KDM. > It prints the message saying "Starting K Desktop Manager: kdm." but it > doesn't do much else. If I login to the shell and run "init 3" from > runlevel 2, the same happens. If I then run "/etc/init.d/kdm start", > kdm starts up fine. > > I've noticed that "/usr/bin/kdm" and "/usr/bin/kdm_config" show up > in the process table when init tries to load KDM, and they stay there > for some time, but there is no entry for an X server... KDM seems to > fail to load X when run from init. > > I've tried everything I can think of, hacking the shell script > /etc/init.d/kdm, removing, changing and reconfiguring X, xdm and kdm, to > no avail. I wrote a new simple init script, "local", put into it > "/usr/bin/kdm", and added it as default, with no luck. There's this > black hole problem that I can't get any closer to when init calls kdm > via an init script. > > I'm completely confounded, and it's a pain because although I'm happy > to login and run the init script, this machine is for my parents. > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > Regards, > Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
