Problem with KDM not passing to Xorg/KDE after login

[Michael Nottebrock]

On Thursday, 12. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote:
> Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> > On Monday, 9. July 2007, Kim Attree wrote:
> >> I made Root's $HOME point to /var/db (touched to make sure it's writable
> >> on the diskless workstation  - it is) and the KDM still refuses to pass
> >> to Xorg/KDE.
> >>
> >> Any Other Ideas ???
> >
> > Make sure you have a hostname set (in rc.conf or via dhcp) and
> > "localhost" is resolvable.
>
> Mike,
>
> I've checked rc.conf and the hostname is defined and a 'hostname'
> command on the workstation confirms this. I've added a /etc/hosts file
> on the workstation (through the /conf/default directory on diskless
> server) with the following:
>
> 127.0.0.1   localhost
> 196.31.157.162  diskless02.csc.jnb6.za.uu.net (server)
> 196.31.157.130   csc01.csc.jnb6.za.uu.net (workstation)
>
> confirmed that localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1 on the workstation. KDM
> still refuses to pass to Xorg.

Just to make sure - you cannot launch any session type from kdm, not even 
failsafe?

What happens if you try to run Xsession manually, i.e.:

$ X &
[switch back to VTY]
$ env DISPLAY=:0 /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xsession default
[switch back to X11]

Does KDE start? If not, try running Xsession as above but with shell tracing 
enabled like

$ env DISPLAY=:0 sh -x /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xsession default

to see where it hangs/exits.


Cheers,
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   ,_,   | Michael Nottebrock               | lofi at freebsd.org
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