Re: [gentoo-user] Lost KDE

["Hemmann, Volker Armin" <volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>]

On Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Philip Webb <purslow@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> > 070703 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > > I have been using KDE for a long long time.
> > > Suddenly it's not there any more.
> > > anything else just sends me back to (what I think is) kdm.
> > >  1183499736:  ::: completed emerge (4 of 12) kde-base/kdebase-pam-7 to
> > > /
> >
> > That looks the most likely suspect.  It's very recent (see bug 183887).
> > I have version 6 : try restoring that & see what happens
> > ('emerge =kde-base/kdebase-pam-6').
> > You should also look in  /etc/pam.d/  for further clues.
>
> That did not help, but it reminded me of another fact I forgot to mention:
> The first time I went to log in after rebooting, a dialog box told me that
> my KDE 3.5 startup was old or invalid or something, and would be removed.
> Indeed, kdm is NOT presenting me with an option to start a KDE session.
> I'm not sure how to enable it.
>
> What is still there:
> /etc/rc.conf still contains the line "XSESSION=kde-3.5"
> /etc/X11/Sessions no longer contained kde-3.5, but I made another based on
> the leftover kde-3.4; I'm not sure this did anything, as the symptoms did
> not change.
> ps -axlww shows that I'm running kde 3.5 version of kdm
>
> But I can't coax it into starting a KDE session.  My only choices seem to
> be fluxbox and failsafe.
>
> My setup does not seem to correspond to the guidance on setting up KDE that
> I found in the Gentoo docs.  But it used to work, and I'm not sure it's
> safe to try to modify it to agree -- I'm afraid I won't know what to undo
> of the old way.

please check if /etc/X11/Sessions/kde-3.5 exists.

If not: remeerge kdebase.

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