I was hit by something similar after upgrading kdm from 4.8.4-4 to
4.8.4-5, which changes the default kdm configuration. I decided to take
the maintainer's version of the script and then kdm wouldn't start
anymore. However, the Login Manager configuration tool still let me
configure kdm.
/etc/init.d/kdm is responsible for substituting
@@@ToBeReplacedByDesktopBase@@@ when kdm is started, at line 86:
sed -i "s|@@@ToBeReplacedByDesktopBase@@@|$DEFAULT_KDM_THEME|" ${KDMCFG}
This failed because my kdmrc was in /var/run/kdm/kdmrc/kdmrc rather than
in /var/run/kdm/kdmrc. I was unable to figure out why (even after
reading upgrade scripts) but /var/run/kdm/ was a directory which
contained a kdmrc/ subdirectory.
Deleting /var/run/kdm/kdmrc/ works around.
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