Kdm problem at boot

[Shawn P. Garbett]

On Friday 16 August 2002 03:50 pm, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 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?

Yes:
spg at Further:~$ locate Xsetup
/etc/kde2/kdm/Xsetup
/etc/X11/xdm/Xsetup
spg at Further:~$ cat /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsetup
#!/bin/sh
#
# /etc/kde2/kdm/Xsetup
#
# This script is run whenever kdm is asked to manage a display.

PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/X11

sysmodmap=/etc/X11/Xmodmap

hostserver=$(echo $DISPLAY | cut -d. -f1)

if grep -qs ^run-xconsole /etc/kde2/kdm/kdm.options; then
  if [ -e /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid ]; then
    pid=$(cat /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid 2> /dev/null)
    if [ "$pid" ]; then
      kill $pid 2> /dev/null
    fi
    rm /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid
  fi
  xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail -file 
/dev/xconsole &
  echo $! > /var/run/xconsole.$hostserver.pid
fi

if command -v xmodmap > /dev/null 2>&1; then
  if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
  fi
fi

/usr/bin/kdmdesktop &
exit 0
spg at Further:~$ locate Xservers
/etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers
spg at Further:~$ cat /etc/kde2/kdm/Xservers
# $XConsortium: Xserv.ws.cpp,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:30 gildea Exp $
#
# Xservers file, workstation prototype
#
:0 local at tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X  -dpi 100 vt7

>
> 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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