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ZenIT

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Monday, March 22nd 2004, 2:07pm

Users can't login when using kdm

Hello,

I have Slackware 9.1 with the 2.6.3 kernel installed. I have now upgraded KDE to version 3.2.1 and have some trouble with the kdm login. I use runlevel 4 with kdm as default, and before the upgrade everything worked out fine (never try to repair what's not broken right?). Now when I try to login as an user, I get bounced back to the login screen before KDE starts loading. However, when I login as root it works. Also, when I switch to runlevel 3 and write startx as a user, KDE works fine. So, I guess there's some permission problem with kdm that I can't solve. Is there someone out there that might be able to explain for me what may be wrong?

A file is being created in the user's home directory called .xsession-errors and that one contain the following error messages:

stderr is not a tty - where are you?
/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xsession: line 1: /home/anders/LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:: No such file or directory
/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xsession: line 1: exec: /home/anders/LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:: cannot execute: No such file or directory

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Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 2:02pm

please? :oops:

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Wednesday, March 24th 2004, 3:41pm

Re: Users can't login when using kdm

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stderr is not a tty - where are you?
/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xsession: line 1: /home/anders/LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:: No such file or directory
/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xsession: line 1: exec: /home/anders/LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:: cannot execute: No such file or directory


That looks very strange. What does your
/opt/kde/share/config/kdm/Xsession look like?
Seems like it tries to use a variable that is set to
a nonsensical value.

You might also want to check
/etc/profile
/home/anders/.bash_profile
or
/home/anders/.bashrc

There might be a line like
HOME=/home/anders/LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:
that should probably be two lines:
HOME=/home/anders/
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lib:

or some such...