kde troubles....

[Gary Kline]

On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:12:27PM -0400, Michael Powell wrote:
> Gary Kline wrote:
> 
> > AFter a  power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but
> > # kdm
> > 
> > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid.
> 
> Try deleting that file and reboot if you are starting kdm in ttys.
> 
> If that by itself doesn't work there are a number of other files to clean as
> well, but they don't come into play until after kdm is running and you are
> attempting to start a KDE session as a particular user.
> 

	nojoy.

	the err message is gone, but KDE creates an /rmpty kdm.pid and
	does nothing.

	stdout says "Information: reading current kdmrc ..... \n"  and
	then:

	"Infirmation: current kdmrc is from kde 3.1 ....."  

	Nothing else; what else neeeds cleaning?

	thanks.

	gary


> -Mike
>   
> 
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