On 04/11/2013 02:26, John Pilkington wrote: > From: John Pilkington <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2013 2:26 AM > Subject: Re: KDM/KDE login panel disappears > > On 11/04/13 04:11, Charles Patterson wrote: >> Originally posted on the Scientific Linux forum: >> http://scientificlinuxforum.org/index.php?act=ST&f=11&t=2281 >> >> With this last update to 6.4, and perhaps an update before, the KDM >> login panel does not appear after boot. I see the background but nothing >> else. Going to init level 3 and then back to init level 5 shows me the >> login panel. Also hitting ctrl-alt-delete and then escape to dismiss the >> shutdown menu shows the login panel as well. Going to init level 3 and >> then startx puts me into an X session without login at all. >> >> /var/log/messages says: >> kdm: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 1 signal 0 >> kdm: Fatal X Server IO error: Interrupted system call >> >> I have console access no problem and the rest of the system seems >> healthy. fsck on the root partition came back with no problems. >> >> I should say that I am running an ATI RV100 QY/Radeon 7000/VE card so no >> nVidia issues here. >> >> Now that I have the work-around, this isn't so dire anymore, but still >> irksome. Anybody have any ideas how to fix this? >> >> TIA. > > About two weeks ago my LVM tools disappeared somehow and I lost access to > lv_home; after reinstalling the tools, and apparent initial success, I could > only reboot into Gnome. I enabled the kde-unstable repo to try the new build > from there, but still could get only Gnome or the login screen. Xorg.0.log > showed many AUDIT messages and clients being connected and rapidly > disconnected. I found an earlier reference quoting a similar log extract and > claiming a cure by adding a section "Files" defining the RgbPath to > Xorg.conf, but that was later retracted. I don't have an Xorg.conf. > I'm now on 6.4 > > Eventually I found that disabling the sshd service permitted normal login to > kde. That's not a universal solution, but it lets me do most of what I > want.
Thanks for the post. Unfortunately, this does not seem to be related to my issue. In any case, disabling sshd is not an option for me as I use this system sometimes as headless. As I said before, I can get the KDE login panel to appear by hitting CTRL-ALT-DEL and then ESC. I have no X errors and only KDM errors which I quoted above from /var/log/messages. Can anybody give me a clue as to where and/or what to look for to fix this? Is there any other mail list or forum that would be able to get to the developers about this? Thanks. > > John P >
