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markez

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Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 7:30am

Help!!!

I need serious help.... Here is my problem, I type my password kde tries to start, but it returns to the login screen and asks for the password again. I tried to reconfigure xorg.conf, created another user, deleted the .kde folder in my home directory, the only way I can start kde is by typing ctrl+alt+f1 and starting kde as root. any ideas???

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Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 1:20pm

RE: Help!!!

Gut reaction is to check the pam-kdm rules.

Here's the content of mine:

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#%PAM-1.0

auth       required     pam_unix.so
auth       required     pam_nologin.so
account    required     pam_unix.so
password   required     pam_unix.so
session    required     pam_unix.so
session    required     pam_limits.so


Let us know if that matches yours. If that doesn't work, post the output of the env. You might not have the $KDE or $QT vars set.

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Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 3:58pm

This appears in /etc/pam.d/kdm

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# /etc/pam.d/kdm - specify the PAM behaviour of kdm
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auth required pam_nologin.so
auth required pam_env.so readenv=1
auth required pam_env.so readenv=1 envfile=/etc/default/locale
@include common-auth
session required pam_limits.so
@include common-account
@include common-password
@include common-session

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Wednesday, July 11th 2007, 4:15pm

Try moving that file, and C&P mine into a new /etc/pam.d/kdm, restart runlevel 5 (telinit 3, login as root, and telinit 5), and see if that fixes it.

I am not very familiar with PAM, but mine should be secure enough for a login. The parts that I really don't understand are the pam_env.so, I think that if you looked at the common-* files, they would match up with mine pretty much.

There might be something in your log files that will help you figure out what is going on. I believe that KDM does report to syslog.