KDM Broken After Yum Update

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Feb 19 12:54:29 UTC 2007


Kurt Wall wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 05:05:18PM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:

> Yah, not exactly my most informative message. Specifically,
> /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc was not replaced, just renamed, such that the
> previously working KDM screen and background have been replaced by
> whatever defaults are compiled in.
> 
> $ ls -ld /etc/kde/kdm/
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 18 08:57 /etc/kde/kdm/
> 
> $ ls -lcr /etc/kde/kdm/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 Feb 18 08:57 Xwilling ->
> ../../X11/xdm/Xwilling
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 Feb 18 08:57 Xsetup -> ../../X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  207 Feb 18 08:57 Xsession
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   22 Feb 18 08:57 Xservers ->
> ../../X11/xdm/Xservers
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   24 Feb 18 08:57 Xresources ->
> ../../X11/xdm/Xresources
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   21 Feb 18 08:57 Xaccess -> ../../X11/xdm/Xaccess
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1506 Feb 18 08:57 kdmrc.rpmsave
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  360 Feb 18 08:57 backgroundrc

Yep, you are missing kdmrc, and have only a kdmrc.rpmsave here.  No idea why
it did that... ???

cp -a /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc.rpmsave /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc
should fix it.

-- Rex






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