[lug] problems with kdm and changing shells

[Jason Davis]

On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 21:40, Phil Rasch wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I just built a new box using ProMepis which is running a 2.6.10 kernel,
> KDE3.3, and a bunch of new things I havent tried yet.
> 
> I installed it on my hard drive and everything is working pretty well....
> 
> Except... I like tcsh for my shell. 
> 
> I installed it, then used chsh to change the shell. I can login fine
> from the console, but KDM wont start a session. It accepts the user and
> password, then begins to startup the Xsession but kicks out and brings
> me back to the kdm screen, asking for user and password information
> again.
> 
> I can verify that this is indeed the problem by switching back and
> forth between bash and tcsh for my default shell. It always works with
> bash, and never works with tcsh. But tcsh seems completely solid from the
> console, or just starting it up by typing "tcsh" into bash.
> 
> Grubbing on the web indicated that somebody saw a similar problem on a BSD 
> machine, but no solution was posted.
> 
> This install may be hardened for security more than I am used to. 
> 
> dmesg | grep -i selinux 
> 
> shows
> 
> SELinux: Initializing
> SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
> SELinus_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
> SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
> 
> KDE is also a newer version than I have used before.
> 
> There may be settings in pam.d that cause me problems.
> 
> But I have tried what I know and am not making progress. Can anybody 
> offer me advice?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Phil Rasch


Debian has a bug for this... maybe this will help a little?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-qt-kde/2004/08/msg00330.html

check this out
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-February/036064.html

and this :p
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=kdm+tcsh+login&btnG=Search

good luck,
jd



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