The new Karmic release fixes that issue :)

Tim

On Thu, October 29, 2009 9:24 am, Denis Prost wrote:
> Denis Prost a écrit :
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>> 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
>
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