After emerging kde 3.3.0, kdm login gives troubles. Loggin in with a plain user does NOT start kde, but gives a single shell instead. If one types 'startkde' in that shell, kde will come up, no problem. When one logs in as root in kdm to start kde, kde will come up fine. I found quite a few entries in the forum of users having the same problem, e.g., http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=165614&highlight=kdm+kde+startkde+shell+root I also found the solution: /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xsession is not executable for plain users, only for root. Doing a 'chmod a+rx /usr/kde/3.3/share/config/kdm/Xsession' solved the problem for good. Since only a few users are affected by this problem, I guess it might be a special upgrade issue - so the respective ebuild should be checked to set permission correctly. Also, startkde complained that /usr/bin/cpp was not executable by plain users and also /usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qt* was not readable by all users. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.make kdm the login manager 2.login at kdm with a plain (non-root) user for a kde session Actual Results: kde does not start, a single shell appears instead Expected Results: kde should start instead
As you said, we don't know a way to reproduce this bug, so there's really nothing we can do about it...
