Can't run KDM after upgrade to 6.2 - BSD
This is a discussion on Can't run KDM after upgrade to 6.2 - BSD ; I've just upgraded to 6.2-RELEASE using Colin Percival's new freebsd-update
scipt
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Everything ran very quickly and smoothly, much easier than upgrading from
the CDROM.
Although the base system upgrade went OK I've hit a problem when I try to
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Can't run KDM after upgrade to 6.2
I've just upgraded to 6.2-RELEASE using Colin Percival's new freebsd-update
scipt
.
Everything ran very quickly and smoothly, much easier than upgrading from
the CDROM.
Although the base system upgrade went OK I've hit a problem when I try to
login via KDM, it accepts my password but throws me straight back to the
KDM welcome screen. It happens for all users so it looks like a KDE problem
rather than a user configuration error.
The only error message I can find is in .xsession-errors in the users home
directory:
> usage: mktemp [-d] [-q] [-t prefix] [-u] template ...
> mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] -t prefix
> Missing name for redirect.
> .: missing filename
Any suggestions where I should look to track this one down?
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Mike Clarke
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Re: Can't run KDM after upgrade to 6.2
Mike Clarke :
Hi,
> The only error message I can find is in .xsession-errors in the users
> home directory:
>
>> usage: mktemp [-d] [-q] [-t prefix] [-u] template ...
>> mktemp [-d] [-q] [-u] -t prefix
>> Missing name for redirect.
>> .: missing filename
>
> Any suggestions where I should look to track this one down?
I saw this problem but i don't remember what i did to solve it. I think i
did a rm * into /usr/local/share/config/kdm (not sure for the path, i'm on
Windows) and then 'genkdmconfig'.
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Re: Can't run KDM after upgrade to 6.2
Patrick Lamaizière wrote:
> I saw this problem but i don't remember what i did to solve it. I think i
> did a rm * into /usr/local/share/config/kdm (not sure for the path, i'm on
> Windows) and then 'genkdmconfig'.
I don't appear to have a file named genkdmconfig anywhere on my system.
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Mike Clarke
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Re: Can't run KDM after upgrade to 6.2
Mike Clarke wrote:
> Patrick Lamaizière wrote:
>
>> I saw this problem but i don't remember what i did to solve it. I think i
>> did a rm * into /usr/local/share/config/kdm (not sure for the path, i'm
>> on Windows) and then 'genkdmconfig'.
>
> I don't appear to have a file named genkdmconfig anywhere on my system.
> .
/usr/local/bin/genkdmconf
Personnally i had recently a similar problem, the culprit was
/etc/nsswitch.conf.
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Re: Can't run KDM after upgrade to 6.2
Michel Talon wrote:
> Mike Clarke wrote:
>
>> Patrick Lamaizière wrote:
>>
>>> I saw this problem but i don't remember what i did to solve it. I think
>>> i did a rm * into /usr/local/share/config/kdm (not sure for the path,
>>> i'm on Windows) and then 'genkdmconfig'.
>>
>> I don't appear to have a file named genkdmconfig anywhere on my system.
>> .
>
> /usr/local/bin/genkdmconf
>
> Personnally i had recently a similar problem, the culprit was
> /etc/nsswitch.conf.
Thanks Patrick and Michael, running genkdmconf fixed things.
It looks like /usr/local/share/config/kdm/Xsession was the culprit, in 6.1
line 14 was xsess_tmp=`mktemp` and became
xsess_tmp=`mktemp /tmp/xsess-env-XXXXXX`in 6.2 after running genkdmconf.
Looking at the man page for mktemp I'm surprised it ever worked since the
template doesn't seem to be optional.
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Mike Clarke
