Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:33:12 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Tim Kellers <kellers@njit.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kdm refuses to allow non-root login to kde Message-ID: <20040815063312.GA86007@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <200408150005.00900.kellers@njit.edu> References: <200408150005.00900.kellers@njit.edu>
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On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 12:05:00AM -0400, Tim Kellers wrote:
>
> I've been battling this on and off (mostly off) since April.
>
> If I put exec startkde in .xesession in a non-root folder and I enable xdm
> in /etc/ttys, I can log into xorg's xdm and kde starts just fine -- even as a
> non-root user.
>
> If I enable kdm in /etc/ttys, I get the kdm login screen, and if I login with
> a non-root account, the display just stays at it's default background until I
> kill it with CNTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.
Sounds like a DNS problem (yes, I know, why the heck does kdm want
with a DNS lookup - but there it is). If you put the output of
hostname(1) into /etc/hosts as an alias for 127.0.0.1 (localhost),
your problem _may_ go away.
Cheers.
--
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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