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Thursday, March 27th 2003, 12:41am

kdm doesn't start

i have set kdm as my default-display-manager. on startup, i can see the message "Starting K Desktop Manager: done" but after that it goes to text mode. with "ps -A" i can notice that kdm is not running. after i type "startx" my X works fine.

i tried "update-rc.d kdm defaults" and get "System startup links for /etc/init.d/kdm already exist." message. how can i get the kdm daemon to run ?

ps.- after "startx", with "ps -A" i can see
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299 tty1 00:00:00 startx
311 tty1 00:00:00 xinit
312 ? 00:00:09 X
315 tty1 00:00:00 x-session-manag
340 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
347 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit
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Thursday, March 27th 2003, 1:40pm

Does /var/log/kdm.log have any useful error messages?

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Thursday, March 27th 2003, 7:50pm

rhorn:

thanks for answering. /var/log/kdm.log has this error message:

kdm: relocation error: kdm: undefined symbol: _XdmcpWrapperToOddParity
/usr/bin/kdm: relocation error: /usr/bin/kdm: undefined symbol: _XdmcpWrapperToOddParity

any idea?

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Thursday, March 27th 2003, 7:59pm

I got a similar problem with the new KDE 3.1.1 packages. Maybe kdeinit didn´t find some modules. Did you try the "ldconfig" command from a text console. Maybe KDM will work after that.

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Thursday, March 27th 2003, 8:55pm

rainbird60:

i've tried it without success. thanks any way.

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Thursday, March 27th 2003, 9:54pm

Looks like a problem with gcc-3.2.x with older packages

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Friday, March 28th 2003, 12:37am

i'm using debina woody. i installed it on 3 computers, using the same installation cd's, and only in one of them i got this kdm problem.

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Friday, March 28th 2003, 9:23am

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i'm using debina woody. i installed it on 3 computers, using the same installation cd's, and only in one of them i got this kdm problem.

Ok, which source for KDE are you using? Ralf Nolden's?

You may need to do a purge of the kdm packages and a reinstall (a simple reinstall may also do the trick.)

apt-get --purge remove kdm #optional, may not be necessary
apt-get --reinstall install kdm

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Tuesday, April 1st 2003, 3:19am

i've finally solved it. let me tell you what i did, hoping it could be helpfull to someone else:

i installed debian woody. since my video card wasn't suported by xfree86 4.1 (the version that comes with the woody installation cd's), i manually installed xfree86 4.3, and even though i was able to work with the x's, kdm never worked. what i did after was to re-install xfree86 4.3 from nolden's site (deb http://devel-home.kde.org/~nolden/X11 woody main) using dselect, and after that i reinstalled kdm (apt-get -reinstall install kdm). now everything goes fine.

thanks for your help, folks. it was very valuable. this shows that this forum is a great way to help each other.