From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robert S" Subject: Can't get into WM (KDE, TWM etc) from KDM or XDM Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 21:06:53 +1100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Reply-To: "Robert S" Return-path: List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I'm running Slack 9.1. Since I recently upgraded from slack 9.0 to my current version, I have no longer been able to get from kdm into any window managers (kde, twm etc). My monitor goes momentarily blank then returns to the KDM/XDM prompt. I can however get into my WM using "startx" and I can also get into kdm with no problems (I am using konqueror to do this). I therefore assume that my /etc/X11/XF86Config is OK. my /root/.xsession_errors and /home/me/.xsession_errors do not display anything - ie presumably no errors. My /var/log/XFree86.0.log does not show any errors (ie no (EE)) but there are a few warnings. /var/log/kdm.log also does not show any errors. If I enter # startkde I get the following message: xset: unable to open display "" xset: unable to open display "" xset: unable to open display "" xsetroot: unable to open display '' startkde: Starting up... ksplash: cannot connect to X server kdeinit: Aborting. $DISPLAY is not set. Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory ksmserver: cannot connect to X server startkde: Shutting down... Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory Error: Can't contact kdeinit! X11GlobalComm: Can't connect to the XServer - Initial references won't work. bad md5 secret-cookie obtained from Arts::X11GlobalComm - replacing it startkde: Running shutdown scripts... startkde: Done. Can anybody help me out here? Robert S. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs