KDM problems on fresh install of 5.3

[Michael L. Squires]

A couple of problems that might cause this have been discussed recently in 
the freebsd-kde mailing list.  One of them involved not having the correct 
KDE startup files in /usr/local/share/config/kdm (where kdmrc lives, 
apparently) and another had to do with commands in the shell startup 
scripts failing (such as user .profile or system /etc/profile).  I've also 
seen this happen when a previous attempt to start X failed and left trash 
in the user's home directory and in the /tmp directory.

I think the command to create the kdm startup files is "genkdmconf"; 
however, there are no associated man pages with it but it should be 
documented on the kde.org Web site.

Mike Squires
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, Peter McMahan wrote:

> Hi,
> I just installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a Dell Latitude, and
> installation went without a hitch. While trying to
> configure KDM for graphical login, though, I ran into
> some problems.
> startx works fine as both root and as a regular user.
> However, when I run KDM and enter my username and
> password all that loads is another instance of KDM.
> This is very frustrating. The same issue occurs when I
> try XDM, so I think the problem is with BSD and not
> KDE.