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Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 11:04 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot enter KDE
On Tuesday 30 November 2004 7:40 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote:Hello:
I just installed Mandrake 10.1 Official (Download), and everything went all right except that on boot, I cannot enter into KDE. The boot process reaches only the point of the blue screen with the Mandrake logo in the lower part, and that's it. It doesn't go further from there to enter KDE. I would appreciate if you could help me to solve this.
Yep, that's a standard problem with KDE if you are using KDM as your login manager.
There is a phrase missing from kdmrc. Just add "ServerVTs=-7" to the [general] section of /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc and reboot.
Now to get there: at login go to failsafe, and boot the machine. you can either boot kde with a "startx" command, or open vi at /etc/kde/kdmrc, and figure out the eccentricities of that editor, so that you can add the line.
When you are done, you can exit with the command "shutdown -r now".
It didn't work, Rob. I booted normally and when I reached the blue screen I pressed Cont+Alt+F1 and made the change you suggest. It didn't work that way.
I tried entering in failsafe mode as you suggested, and I get the following error:
HylaFAX FATAL ERROR: /var/spool/fax/etc/setup.cache is missing!
Then I get:
INIT: Going single user.
And the prompt:
sh-2.05b#
I still can reach the file kdmrc, and I can write with vi all right, but when I quit I get:
E138: Can't write viminfo file $HOME/.viminfo!
Can you make up something of all of this? By the way, I added the line you suggest at the beginning and at the end and of the [general] section and it makes no difference.
Thanks so much for your feedback.
Teilhard
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