On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 16:14 +0530, Aniket Bharaswadkar wrote:

My brother and I have separate accounts. To access files in my home dir, he made my user and his user member of all groups.(dunno how that helped him!! but i dont blame him , he is a kid in 10th std). Then later on , when I removed some softwares, may be a group associated with it was deleted but both users were its members or so . So I just made the group memberships to minimum needed ie. own group and wheel group , and KDM login happened . I may be wrong in assesing the problem as I dont know which group's membership exactly caused the problem.

Thanks for the reply. Anyway, keep your root password safe. You were lucky this time. I remember updating my XFree86 on RH9 in a bid to get DRI working and I really messed up my entire system.

I am wondering why was GDM working then if KDM had problem !! Is it a bug in KDM that its checking for harmless and inconsequential errors and giving up on it , coz if GDM can start my KDE why not KDM !!

Maybe KDM was checking for some KDE specific details which GDM didn't do?