From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 28 08:38:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7319E16A5C1 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:38:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ABabiy@shaw.ca) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 303A613C480 for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:38:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ABabiy@shaw.ca) Received: from pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (pd2mr5so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.8]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JH700ELB9BVTB50@l-daemon> for FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:38:19 -0600 (MDT) Received: from pn2ml3so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.147]) by pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-7.05 (built Sep 5 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JH700LZS9BV4GS0@pd2mr5so.prod.shaw.ca> for FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:38:20 -0600 (MDT) Received: from s01060014bf5ee711.vs.shawcable.net ([70.71.71.220]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JH7007VG9BV54J0@l-daemon> for FreeBSD-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:38:19 -0600 (MDT) Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 01:38:17 -0700 From: Andriy Babiy In-reply-to: <20070426193952.GD5788@osiris.chen.org.nz> To: Ivan Rambius Ivanov Message-id: <200704280138.17842.ABabiy@shaw.ca> Organization: home MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <89ce7f740704260143h1d5e2e8bia9008835b5379e1f@mail.gmail.com> <20070426193952.GD5788@osiris.chen.org.nz> User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Unable to login using KDE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:38:19 -0000 > > I am debugging a (seemingly) KDE-related problem on a FreeBSD laptop. > > The version of FreeBSD is 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #0. I am starting in in > > debug mode. It is using kdm as a login screen. The corresponding line > > in /etc/ttys is > > > > ttyv8 "/usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure > > > > The problem is: when I type the username and password and try to login > > it returns me to the login screen again. > > What are the contents of your ~/.xsession? Check ~/.xsession-errors as > well. Do you use alpha-numeric symbols only in your password? The keyboard layout in kde might be different, so the same keys can generate different input. Try something simple and see if it works. Andriy