kdm does not start (upstart) - error in /etc/init/kdm.conf

I can independently confirm that this resolves the issue that came in with the update I did today.

The solution suggested seems to fix this issue.

Confirming as well

The suggested solutions does not fix the problem for me. I've changed the path of kdm in kdm.conf as shown above, but when I do a restart, no KDM is started - I only see the virtual terminal. I can then start KDE with "startx".

I also confirm that the solution works for me.

The solution doesn't work for me either!

Yes, confirmed.
fixed, working

Same problems here too after te update last night, command line login. Could start the desktop by typing startx but there are Icons missing (restart and shutdown, no sound at all, KPackagekit throws an error at me whilest clicking on Refresh that i don't have enough rights or something like that. I also tried the daily build of today but it wasn't working either.

So it is suggested to change the path: "/usr/sbin/kdm" into "/usr/bin/kdm".
My question is now, is there a file named kdm in the /usr/bin directory?
There is, however, the file kdm in the directory /usr/sbin.
At least in gnome the file named gdm cannot be found in the directory /usr/bin.

Using false directory is obviously not a fix to this bug.

Yes, there is a file named "kdm" ind "/usr/bin", but there is none in "/usr/sbin". It was there before the recent update too.

I too do not have sound now - but is this really related to this update? Or is this caused by the recent update of the kernel?

I have to emphasise that the fix mentioned here does not work for me.

@Christrian: I found that if I used 'startx' to get to the desktop, both the sound and DVB card on my computer would not work.

Using 'sudo start kdm' and then 'sudo kdm' to get to the desktop worked.

OK Christian, so there is a difference between kdm and gdm setups.
I did check this from both of my PC's (32-bit Karmic Ubuntu and 64-bit Karmic Ubuntu).
These both have the file "gdm" only in the directory "/urs/sbin", not in "usr/bin".
Both of these PC:s are updated from the main server. Just checked a few minutes ago.

I was having the same issue after the update to 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu10. Fixed with the suggestion made by Kubicle. I don't know why the importance of this bug isn't set yet. Taking into account that everybody updating their current KDE packages in Karmic will be landing to the same cli. Can anybody give me an explanation?

(I'm just trying to understand what is happening, not criticizing or anything related...)

This bug was fixed in the package kdebase-workspace - 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu11

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kdebase-workspace (4:4.3.1-0ubuntu11) karmic; urgency=low

  * Fix path to KDM in kdm.upstart, Closes LP: #437067

 -- Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:47:38 +0100

IMHO the fix should be deeper. I guess at least the vars DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE and DAEMON should be moved up in the script and use those vars in the [ -f ] conditional instead of the hard coded values used in the current script. Any comments?

It's fixed in the last upgrades,

With today update the problem is come back. KDM not starts and persists a black screen. I must reboot and I must remove from grub the 'quiet' and 'splah' parametres for start KDM.

Package:
 kdm 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu14
 usplash 0.5.39

giuseppe

Works for me without problems after update.

Well, this isn't fixed properly because if for example you have kdm package installed (But not kde) then it doesn't fix the path issue for kdm. I have no idea how you reopent this so I will just open a new one. If I am doing this incorrectly let me know.

@jamey0824:
Could you explain a bit more, kdm installs to /usr/bin/kdm whether or not you have kde installed (as opposed to gdm that installs in /usr/sbin/).

For kdm to start, it needs to be set as the default display manager ("/usr/bin/kdm" in /etc/X11/default-display-manager)

Hi ! (sorry for my bad english)

same problem since my upgrade of kuntu jaunty to kubuntu karmic beta today.

kdm => 4.4.3.2-0ubuntu6(karmic)

see my kdm log

in a kdm.conf files the fix is here :

[ ! -f /etc/X11/default-display-manager -o "$(cat /etc/X11/default-display-manager 2>/dev/null)" = "/usr/bin/kdm" ]

but kdm doesn't...

/etc/X11/default-display-manager

jajax I think the error here is "(EE) Failed to load module "freetype" (module does not exist, 0)" which is a problem with X not KDM. Please file a bug with the command "ubuntu-bin xserver-xorg"

That should be "ubuntu-bug xserver-xorg"

Hi (sorry for my bad english)

I don't modify nothing and kdm load fine this morning...

here my xorg.conf and my last Xorg.0.log