>> > It must be a year or so now with all different kernels. On boot up kdm >> > fires >> > up, but within 5 seconds or so and while the use is busy entering their >> > passwd on the kdm screen, it suddenly returns to the console. Alt+F7 >> > brings them back to their kdm, but this behaviour is clearly wrong. I >> > suspect that this is caused by dhcpcd getting an IP address, or vixie >> > cron (the last two things shown on the console when the user gets dumped >> > back on it) but I can't >> > understand why these two services will cause such a problem on this >> > machine, when other machines with the same services work fine.
If it's an IP address problem (where your hostname is getting changed by dhcp), here's my logfile for a similar problem: d...@flux ~/log $ more hostname.txt Network Manager (at least up to 0.6.6) changes my hostname to dhcp#### and garbage. it's annoying and not right. The following seems to work. d...@flux /etc/dhcp $ more dhclient.conf send host-name "flux"; supersede host-name "flux"; For some reason I had to reinstall kwifimanager, but maybe that's unrelated (I think it's unrelated). Otherwise, I'm not sure. I also had trouble with kdm/xdm the first time around, but if I look over the log file for my successful install, there were no tricks involved. Regards, daid
