On 11/04/13 16:39, Charles Patterson wrote:
On 04/11/2013 02:26, John Pilkington wrote:
From: John Pilkington <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
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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.
My thread about my problem on the kde-for-fedora list got a suggestion
to refresh /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc, which comes as part of kde-settings-kdm.
'yum reinstall kde-settings-kdm' seems to have worked for me.
Thanks to Eli Wapniarski and Kevin Kofler.
John P
