The new Karmic release fixes that issue :) Tim On Thu, October 29, 2009 9:24 am, Denis Prost wrote: > Denis Prost a écrit : >> >> >> >> Denis Prost wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> the message is self explaining : when booting my computer, kdm >>> autologin fails. I have to enter by hand my password to get into kde. >>> Any idea where the problem is ? >>> (I'm using kubuntu-kde3.5 jaunty) >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Denis >>> >> Hi again, >> >> I searched the web. I found that someone had the same problem here >> (http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=41226) but no solution. >> Some more information about it : >> >> auth.log : Oct 23 18:19:06 denis-portable kdm: :0[3839]: >> pam_unix(kdm-np:auth): authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 >> tty=:0 ruser= rhost= user=denis >> >> Any idea what the problem might be or what I should check ? > > Finally, I noticed that : > mv /etc/pam.d/kdm-np-kde3 /etc/pam.d/kdm-np > solved the problem. > Maybe there is something wrong with kdm-kde3 package ? > > I also noticed that : > aptitude install kdm-kde3 > seems to succeed but with the following error message : > cat: /etc/X11/default-display-manager: no such file or directory > [: 19: =: unexpected operator > Don't know if it's a big matter or not... > > Regards, > > Denis > > > >