login and konqueror issues after upgrade

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centic

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Thursday, March 30th 2006, 5:02pm

login and konqueror issues after upgrade

hi everybody (i'm new around here)
i recently upgraded from 3.3 to 3.5 on debian, and am experiencing some issues since:

1. kdm used to display a 'console login' option, which is now gone. anyone knows how to recover it?

2. also, now i can't kill x by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace (actually, it gets killed, but is immediatelly restarted again to kdm). i did not have the 'dontzap' setting in my xf86config, and set it to false, just in case, but it did not work.

3. the 'start new session' option previously available in the k menu and when a session was locked, dissappeared. i still have vts reserved, what i had to do to enable it some kde versions ago.

4. when i try the 'devices' tab, a message appears telling me that the 'device' protocol is not supported, and the window remains blank. the 'lan' tab behaves pretty much the same.

will greatly appreciate any light thrown on any of them, so thanks in advance.

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bram85

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Wednesday, April 5th 2006, 9:12am

RE: login and konqueror issues after upgrade

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1. kdm used to display a 'console login' option, which is now gone. anyone knows how to recover it?

Open `kde-config --prefix`/share/config/kdm/kdmrc and make sure there's a line stating

	Source code
1	AllowConsole=true

I didn't have time (or the knowledge

) to answer your other questions, I may look at it a later time (or someone else does).

Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

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bram85

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Wednesday, April 5th 2006, 5:51pm

RE: login and konqueror issues after upgrade

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2. also, now i can't kill x by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace (actually, it gets killed, but is immediatelly restarted again to kdm). i did not have the 'dontzap' setting in my xf86config, and set it to false, just in case, but it did not work.

AFAIK, this is normal behaviour. Couldn't find an option somewhere to change this behaviour.

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3. the 'start new session' option previously available in the k menu and when a session was locked, dissappeared. i still have vts reserved, what i had to do to enable it some kde versions ago.

Try this.

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when i try the 'devices' tab, a message appears telling me that the 'device' protocol is not supported, and the window remains blank. the 'lan' tab behaves pretty much the same.

Since KDE 3.4, devices:/ is called media:/
But I don't know what's wrong with your lan:/ . Maybe is lisa not configured correctly?

Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

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centic

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Saturday, April 8th 2006, 5:19pm

well, thanks for the replies, bram85. i've seen your signature througout many threads, helping many people. add my thanks to the many you get.

the 'devices' tab now behaves as expected (still haven't checked lisa, though). x still restarts to kdm (i forgot to mention that even 'telinit 3' won't work), but now i've got the 'console login' option to get rid of it if i want. 'allowconsole=true' on its own didn't made the trick, but put me on the right track, as then i consulted the kdmrc documentation and found that 'allowconsole' depends on 'ConsoleTTYs', which my file was missing.

alas, the 'start new session' option refuses to appear. my first post went a bit cryptic, so i'll elaborate. i did not have the option by default in kde 3.1 or 3.2 . what i did back then is what is described in your link. it survived the upgrade to kde 3.3 . now that i upgraded to 3.5, it's gone, but my Xservers file remains the same, as far as i can tell (and resembling what is described in your link). there is now a 'switch user' option/menu, though, but i can't make it work either.

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bram85

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Sunday, April 9th 2006, 11:06am

The switch user replaces the old menu entry found in KDE 3.3. What do you mean exactly "does not work"? Maybe there's useful information in the logfiles (~/.xsession-errors for example).

Bram Schoenmakers
KDE Netherlands (www.kde.nl)

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centic

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Monday, April 10th 2006, 7:16pm

fixed

i had no 'start new session' entry in the 'switch user' menu. i guess that's why i didn't realize that 'switch user' replaced the old menu entry. once you (bram85) pointed that out, i re-google-d, successfully this time. it was another line missing in my kdmrc: 'ReserveServers=:1,:2', in [General] section. (i doubt this adds to your knowledge, but since others may eventually read this...