[gentoo-dev] gentoo 1.0_rc4 - no running kdm and other problems

[thomas.mitzkat@t-online.de (Thomas Mitzkat)]

hello guys,

after updating kde from 2.1 to 2.2, kdm is not running anymore. trying with 
other X11R6 startscripts from my LFS, where kdm from kde2.2 starts, i also 
have no success, but now xdm is running. i think it's not good idea to make 
not a link named /opt/kde to the actual kde-version, many options point to 
/opt/kde2.1 und i have to update them to /opt/kde2.2, no chance to switch 
between these versions by redirecting the link. 

an other error occurs by using the serial-ports for the modem. serial.o was 
correctly loaded on system-startup, but mgetty has no connect to the 
hardware. i'm using a standard kernel 2.4.7, same as running on LFS 3.0 where 
this feature works fine. 

i have an error trying to configure cups for using an lpd on an other 
maschine. kups crashes trying to write the configure-files while trying to 
connect to this daemon. alternately i downloaded and compiled rlpr to use the 
function in kde to print over an lpd in the net. but here the same problem as 
with cups. the connect to the lpdsserver in the net does not work and i don't 
know why. it seemed that the ports are closed, an security-problem?

talking about security: it makes no sense that an user has no chance to use 
su to make same administration work. the password was refused in terminal and 
by using kdesu. using other pam-config-files from LFS fixes this problem, 
please take a look to this.

i have a question: how can i update from gentoo 1.0_rc4 to the actual version?

thanks a lot before,

with best regards


thomas