KDE - no user like 'kdm'

[TaoTePuh]

I try to install KDE. For that I installed the extension "kde4-desktop" and followed the Details from "Info".

Result :

I get no KDE but a console with a login prompt. After login, i get the FLWM enviroment.

In "/var/log/messages" I found the following:

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Mar 12 20:42:10 (none) daemon.err kdm: :0[12032]: no user like 'kdm'
Mar 12 20:42:10 (none) daemon.err kdm: :0[12029]: Cannot execute "/usr/local/lib/kde4/libexec/kdm_greet" (greeter for display :0)


[Rich]

Hi TaoTePuh
Just a guess on my part, but maybe you have to use  adduser  and add  kdm as a user?

[Arslan S.]

you can use kde without kdm, but you should not have such an error

exit to prompt
sudo sh -c 'echo start-kde4 > /etc/sysconfig/desktop'
startx

add etc/sysconfig/desktop to backup list
and comment kdm start line in bootlocal.sh

[TaoTePuh]

Thanks, Rich and Arslan for your replies.

I have created an user 'kdm' with useradd.
Now I get a kdm login window and was able to login as user tc in kde.

The described error message is gone, but now another comes up

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Mar 13 00:51:32 (none) daemon.err kdm_greet[12594]: Data directory "/var/lib/kdm" not accessible: No such file or directory
Mar 13 00:51:33 (none) daemon.err kdm_greet[12594]: Cannot load /usr/local/share/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory

... but so far I had had no impact ...

[Arslan S.]

kdm configuration is fixed and submitted