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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Build 3.1.1 - KDM no logon (as usual...)
From:       1stFlight <1stflight () ameritech ! net>
Date:       2003-03-29 20:22:32
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Did you compile with PAM support?

On Saturday 29 March 2003 02:03 pm, Robin Atwood wrote:
> I had long since been resigned that Red Hat must patch KDM somehow, because
> with RH 7.x whenever I compiled my own KDE 3.0.x, KDM would show 'logon
> failed!' for any logon attempt (with no other error messages in any logs).
> The only solution was to revert the KDM module  to the original RH-supplied
> binary. I have reported this here before but never received any useful
> suggestions.
>
> So imagine my surprise when I built 3.1 against RH 8.0.93 and KDM worked
> out of the box! Problem solved I thought. Alas, I have just built 3.1.1
> over 3.1 and KDM stopped working again. I reverted the three kdm* binaries
> and '/usr/share/config/kdm/*' to the 3.1 versions but still no login. There
> is clearly some weird stuff going on here.
>
> What is /usr/share/config/kdm/* for? It is apparently generated during
> compile time. The files built for 3.1.1 were not the same (and fewer) than
> those for 3.1. Maybe a subsequent generation fails? What is the
> relationship to the proper files in /etc/X11/xdm? That is the Xsession I
> want executed so that any extra window managers I install are picked up. It
> is clear at the moment that Xsession is not executed at all because
> $HOME/.xsession-errors is not created.
>
> Any insights to finally get to the bottom of this would be appreciated,
> since I have to use GDM at the moment!
> TIA
> -Robin.

 
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