kde on sl6 - can't find it

[John Pilkington]

On 08/04/13 13:17, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 08/04/13 05:26, Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>>
>> Try replacing /etc/kde/kdm/kdmrc with kdmrc.rpmnew.
>>
>> Eli
>>
>
> Thank you for that suggestion.  Unfortunately /etc/kde/kdm contains only
> files dated 2010 and earlier, and no .rpmnew.
>
> I did 'yum reinstall kdm', but nothing seems to have changed.
>
> As suggested in the RHEL6 installation guide I did
>
> yum groupinstall "X Window System"  "KDE Desktop"
>
> A few new packages were installed for the X group and all appears to be
> up-to-date - mostly from the unstable repo.  yum grouplist  seems to
> have a problem in identifying these groups as installed;  I think it
> just doesn't like names that include spaces.
>
> Xorg.0.log has many AUDIT lines and references to MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE, with
> lots of clients being connected and then rapidly disconnected.
> I found a suggestion that the screen resolution sometimes isn't
> correctly recognised, but Xorg.0.log looks as if it's getting that right.
>

Hmm.  All those clients being connected and disconnected.  I've disabled 
sshd and can at last boot into kde.  Now to try to recover my earlier 
customisations and see what else works. :-)

John P