Solved: login and halt problems

[dartex]

hi, I have these 2 problems since some weeks.
I don't know if they are related or not, and if it's due a du...

- login: kdm doesn't start automatically, I have the textual login screen, then I have to "startx", and then it works as usual.

- halt: if I exit from kde with buttons, I return to the textual login screen. if I "halt" from konsole it works. but, in any case, the screen remain with a black screen and the text "system halted", and the computer remain turned on.


any idea?
do you need some more info?

thanks!

[melmarker]

long answer short: we do not use and support kdm anymore. Reasons:
* kdm is dead and abandoned
* kdm don't play well with systemd
* kdm will not be the next official KDE Login Manager

For the time beeing we go with lightdm - until we find something better. To install lightdm go to init3 and:

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apt-get purge kdm
apt-get install siduction-settings-lightdm-gtk-december


Don't be afraid of the gtk part in the packagename, thats intentional because no one wants to configure the ubuntu kde greeter.

[dartex]

thank you very much!!!

just a question... if I had kdm and it did work...
why suddenly it doesn't work anymore? 

it fixes also the shutdown problem?

I'll try!

[melmarker]

new systemd eventually - we encountered several problems with systemd and kdm over time and decided not to use it anymore for that reason. Ok - and i'm lazy, i don't analyse and fix dead horses.

[dartex]

it works perfectly now!!!

it was so easy...

I have other 2 problems, maybe it's easy to solve also them, but I'll open a new topic.