Hi Check the permissions on
/dev/null If these are not crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 Jul 11 19:32 /dev/null then please run env-update && source /etc/profile && etc-update All the best Simon On Tuesday 12 July 2005 16:23, Zac Medico wrote: > Yuval Scharf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm using KDE 3.4. > > Since few days ago I can't login using KDM. > > The login process can't pass the "initializing peripherals" stage. > > I can see that there are two processes running kded (one of the is the > > father of the other) which I can't kill. > > After rebooting the machine I can login once and then the probelm > > returns. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > Thanks, > > Yuval Scharf > > This kind of problem is usually some type of permissions issue. Maybe it's > related to the hidden .ICE-unix, .X0-lock, or .X11-unix in /tmp. Try > logging in as root and/or bypass kdm with startx. Did you get anything in > /var/log/kdm.log? > > Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
