can only log on to kde as root

[scharkalvin]

If I login via kdm as a user kdm stalls before finishing
"system" or "periphials"
and I'm left with a pale blue blank screen.

However if I log in as root, it comes up fine.

as a user I'm in the wheel, tty, dialup, mysql, audio, cdrw, cdrom groups.

[RayDude]

[DarkMind]

in my case there was a problem with udev..

i fix with:

emerge -C udev
rm -rf /etc/udev
emerge udev

[scharkalvin]

I found a fix to the problem.
It might have been a udev issue.
What was happening was that /dev/null was only
rw for root. I added a line to the begining of the
xdm script that does "chmod a+rwx /dev/null"
to fix the problem.

Somehow I think this hack isn't quite the right way, but
for now it works.

BTW when I logged in as a user on the command line
I got an error message from bash that it couldn't
open /dev/null ... That was the clue.

[scharkalvin]

Problem was pointed out to me on a gentoo newsgroup.
File /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules was missing
the line
"KERNEL="null", NAME=%k", MODE="0666"

Adding that was the REAL fix.

Now have problem of not getting a bash prompt in konsle
as user (works as root!).

[RayDude]

[scharkalvin]

[RayDude]