Kdm problem at boot

[James Richard Tyrer]

Shawn P. Garbett wrote:
> Okay so I dinked with it and I get what I deserve... 
> 
> With that in mind here's what happened
> 
> I installed the Linux Progress Patch, and life was fine. I decided to try 
> different boot screens. Loaded one and went to compile it into the kernel 
> when the compile choked. Looked into it and the contributed lpp images didn't 
> work with the newer kernel layout. Found copies of the original files before 
> the change and put them back in. Recompiled kernel with no trouble. Now kdm 
> fails at boot time. I can start it normally as root after boot.
> 
> Any help is appreciated, Here's the syslog with full debug on kdm:
> 
> --snip--

<SNIP>


> Aug 15 08:19:04 localhost kdm[926]: Found new display: :0  local at tty1 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 100 vt7
> Aug 15 08:19:04 localhost kdm[926]: StartDisplay :0, try 1
> Aug 15 08:19:04 localhost kdm[926]: startConfig
> Aug 15 08:19:04 localhost kdm[926]: Getter ready
> Aug 15 08:19:04 localhost kdm[926]: requesting config 4
> Aug 15 08:19:04 localhost kdm[926]: Sending int 2 (0x2) to helper
> Aug 15 08:19:04 localhost kdm[926]: Cannot write to helper
> Aug 15 08:19:04 localhost kdm[926]: Wait4(913) failed
> Aug 15 08:19:04 localhost kdm[926]: Unable to read configuration for display 
> :0; stopping it.

The above is the actual error.

This is somewhat of a puzzle since it first reports what it read from: 
"Xservers" and then says that it cant read the configuration for the 
display.  This could be: "Xsetup" -- do you have such a file?

I note that I think that the line in: "Xservers" should be:

:0 local at tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7 -dpi 100

and I don't know if that matters at all, and you probably haven't 
changed this lately.

So, I really don't know.  Specifically, I'm not sure which configuration 
file it can't read.

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