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Old 12-17-2005, 08:02 AM   #1
mngmd
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KDM won't let non-root users login


KDM will only allow a root login. I get a Make sure dcopserver is running error. Apparently, it can't write to the non-root folders. I was able to work around this by chmod -R 777 /home/xxx.

Obviously, not a good long term solution. What's the problem?

I can't see any error messages in console mode, and startx from the console is fine.
 
Old 01-14-2006, 07:30 AM   #2
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The same situation happened to me on KDE/kdm/Debian.

I can start X and KDE from the console after login using

Code:
startx
but it is impossible to log via kdm. It starts loading KDE but during peripheria it turns back to the login screen.

Any advice?
 
Old 01-15-2006, 04:14 AM   #3
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The workaround worked until reboot. Now it is not working.....

_IceTransmkdir: ERROR: Owner of /tmp/.ICE-unix must be set to root
_IceTransSocketUNIXCreateListener: mkdir(/tmp/.ICE-unix) failed, errno = 1
_IceTransMakeAllCOTSServerListeners: failed to create listener for local
KSMServer: Error listening for connections: Cannot establish any listening sockets
KSMServer: Aborting.
startkde: Shutting down...

this is what I found in .xsession-errors

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