Bug 65392

Summary:	user login in kdm gives only a shell instead of starting kde
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Stefan Raspl <raspl>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Raspl 2004-09-26 04:38:46 UTC

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

Comment 1 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-01-18 12:29:18 UTC

As you said, we don't know a way to reproduce this bug, so there's really nothing we can do about it...