Original von Amoeba
Well, there's a couple of things you might want to check over. This may be redundant, but what troubleshooting isn't?
Anyways, check the file /etc/rc.conf for the following:
[code:1]DISPLAYMANAGER="kdm"
XSESSION="KDE-3.3.0"
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DISPLAYMANAGER should be "kdm" while XSESSION should be, well, anything you name the session. XDM looks in /etc/X11/Sessions for available WM/DMs. Make sure you have a session for all of your WM/DMs. For KDE, create (if one does not already exist) a file, preferably kde-<version of kde> and inside, the only line should be:
[code:1]#!/bin/sh
/usr/kde/<version of kde>/bin/startkde
[/code:1]
I really doubt this is an X issue if you can boot into Gnome. Can you boot into KDE if you use GDM? Do you even have GDM installed?
NOTE: GDM does not look in /etc/X11/Sessions. It looks somewhere else.
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Thank you for your reply Amoeba,
Finally somebody replied. ... Anyway, the thing is that there is no such file "/etc/rc.conf" on my system. I looked not only in etc but also in every directory residing inside X11 directory.
And about GDM, it is installed on my system since I have to login to the system using username and password. Currently I am logged into Gnome. And KDE does boot up if I want it to.. but the desktop does not show up plus I also keep getting messages like kicker crashed or panel crashed .. So I don't really have a clue what exactly is happening. But I do have a feeling that it is an xdm issue since I foolishly executed before logging out just to see what it did and how X would behave. And now I am screwed becuase of that ...
And you do have a valid point that if I can boot into Gnome then this can't be it. But then what is it?
I look forward to your reply. Thanx for your help.
Khurram