On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:05:00AM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote:
>
> I've been battling this on and off (mostly off) since April.
>
> If I put exec startkde in .xesession in a non-root folder and I enable xdm
> in /etc/ttys, I can log into xorg's xdm and kde starts just fine -- even as a
> non-root user.
>
> If I enable kdm in /etc/ttys, I get the kdm login screen, and if I login with
> a non-root account, the display just stays at it's default background until I
> kill it with CNTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.
Sounds like a DNS problem (yes, I know, why the heck does kdm want
with a DNS lookup - but there it is). If you put the output of
hostname(1) into /etc/hosts as an alias for 127.0.0.1 (localhost),
your problem _may_ go away.
Cheers.
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Jonathan Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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