On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 10:35 +0530, Aniket Bharaswadkar wrote:

I am using FC5. I have upgraded to latest version of kdebase and kdebase-kdm, from kde-redhat rpms.

The problem when I enter my username and password in KDM , it just drops me back to the same KDM screen , instead of my KDE desktop.

Root can login , and also a new test user I created was able to login.

With GDM , I can login to both KDE and Gnome. WIth KDM i cant login to anything. I have following version of kdebase and other rpms..

kdebase-3.5.6-3.fc5 kdebase-kdm-3.5.6-3.fc5 kde-settings-3.5-18.fc5 kde-settings-kdm-3.5-18.fc5

Please help....calling all linux experts..

Did you try checking out the logs under /var/log/kdm or the likes? It should give you a clue as to why its not allowing regular existing users to login. It'll mostly be something to do with permissions, though I am not sure.

Also, check out your config files for KDM under /home/aniket or whatever your home directory is called.

One idea is to check out the config files generated for the new user and compare them against the ones in your existing account. That should reliably help you to determine what config parameters are causing this odd behavior :) ( use diff to compare the files :P )

One question, how did you upgrade these packages? Yum? Pup? what?