If I let the kdm greeter run as the kdm user, the greeter will error out and X closes. Startx still works as any user, and commenting out GreeterUID in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc allows the greeter to run as expected. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use the default value (kdm) for GreeterUID in /usr/share/config/kdm/kdmrc 2. Run /etc/init.d/xdm start Actual Results: kdm fails to start and X closes /var/log/daemon.log has this: kdm: :0[2400]: Received unknown or unexpected command -2 from greeter kdm: :0[2400]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 1, signal 0 /var/log/kdm.log has this: No protocol specified kdmgreet: cannot connect to X server :0 Expected Results: kdm starts as it did before the upgrade I did follow the KDE upgrade guide at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde44-46-upgrade.xml. Once the issue came up, I also rebuilt world and went over my config files again. I currently have the GreeterUID line commented out but would prefer to run the greeter as a non-root user.
Someone else had a similar issue a couple days ago, and in their case, they somehow had gotten bad permissions on /var/run/xauth. Could you check to see if that's the case? (The directory should be mode 0755, owned by 0:0)
(In reply to comment #1) > Someone else had a similar issue a couple days ago, and in their case, they > somehow had gotten bad permissions on /var/run/xauth. Could you check to see > if that's the case? (The directory should be mode 0755, owned by 0:0) That does in fact fix the issue. Thank you! I have a feeling the "bad" permissions are due to my default umask of 077.
OK, there's not much we can do here anymore.
