When ending a KDE session, instead of returning to a kdm login / welcome screen, you end up at a terminal login (where you were at bootup before kdm started). trying to restart kdm by entering "/etc/init.d/xdm start" tells you it (kdm) is still running. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Log in to KDE as user / root 2.Logout choosing "end session only" 3. Actual Results: kdm / X crashes back to terminal login Expected Results: You should have been brought back to a kdm login screen. Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.10 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://212.219.247.17/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.19/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.20/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://212.219.247.16/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X aalib acpi alsa apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups dvd encode esd foomaticdb gdbm gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd truetype wxwindows x86 xml xml2 xmms xv zlib"
I should have said, this only became a problem since emerging kde 3.2.2 a few days ago. J.K.
In fact, after reverting to 3.2.1, I am still experiencing the same problem. May downgrade to 3.2.0 to chech it out. J.K.
did you check your kdmrc file to make sure something didnt' change?
One of the many things I did was comparing the contents of the kdmrc generated by the kde control center with the one generated by 'genkdmconf --no-old'. No significant difference. I compared '/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers' with '/usr/kde/3.2/share/config/kdm/Xservers'. I replaced; :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 with :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X and it seems to be working ok. But I'd like to more fully understand the syntax and meaning of the contents of the kdm Xsessions file, but cannot find relevant documentation. Any help here would be appreciated. Nothing of note in the ~/.xsession-errrors file, but some interesting entries in the /var/log/messages file; May 28 00:21:56 pantagruel kde(pam_unix)[6764]: session closed for user jkiely May 28 00:21:56 pantagruel kdm[6595]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly May 28 00:21:56 pantagruel [6764]: pam_setcred(DELETE_CRED) for jkiely failed: System error ... May 28 00:29:49 pantagruel kdm[6595]: X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly May 28 00:29:49 pantagruel kdm[6595]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling. ... May 21 21:01:02 pantagruel kde(pam_unix)[21848]: session closed for user root May 21 21:01:02 pantagruel kdm: :0[21986]: IO Error in XOpenDisplay May 21 21:01:02 pantagruel kdm[6476]: Display :0 cannot be opened May 21 21:01:02 pantagruel kdm[6476]: Unable to fire up local display :0; disabling. Hope this helps. J.K.
I forgot to mention that the following was what I found in the file '/usr/kde/3.2/share/config/kdm/Xservers'; :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp vt7 so I changed it to; :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -nolisten tcp :0 vt7 and it seemed to work much better. I wonder if the missing :0 is important. Although it performs better with the added :0, the xdm version still performs much better. KDM seems quite buggy to me on this laptop, but is rock solid on the 2 other boxes I have gentoo installed on. Plus, I'm not 100% sure of the relevance of all of the 'messages' I included in the previous post. I think the last one (for user 'root') is probably the most relevant of the three. It was the one most frequently seen after the problem. I'd love to get this most annoying of issues sorted out before I do a complete reinstall. I don't want to have to do it again, but I'm just so frustrated by this issue. Thanks in advance, J.K.
So I disabled synaptics in xorg.conf and the problem is gone! So if I don't want X to die at logout I cannot use synaptics any longer. J.K.
After some more fiddling, it does appear that the Synaptics driver is causing X to segfault (signal 11) on logout. I'm going to do some more investigation when I get home from work tonight. It may simply be an issue of a mis-configured xorg.conf. I'm closing this bug as INVALID as it's not kdm related after all. Sorry for the trouble, J.K.
