Hi everyone. I'm Phil Miller and one of the developers of paldo.org. I restarted my project paldo-kde-live-cd. With my first iso-image I've some troubles with kdm.




I used this script:

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#!/bin/sh
# /etc/init.d/kdm: start or stop the X display manager
# Script originally stolen from the xdm package
#
# description: K Display Manager
#

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: gdm
# Required-Start: $local_fs $network $syslog hotplug cups
# Required-Stop: $local_fs $network $syslog hotplug cups
# Default-Start: 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 3 4 6
### END INIT INFO

set -e

# To start kdm even if it is not the default display manager, change
# HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER to "false."
HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER=false
DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE=/etc/X11/default-display-manager

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DAEMON=/usr/bin/kdm
PIDFILE=/var/run/kdm.pid
UPGRADEFILE=/var/run/kdm.upgrade

test -x $DAEMON || exit 0

# uncomment, if you want auto-logon to be runlevel-dependant
#test "$runlevel" || { runlevel=`runlevel`; runlevel=${runlevel#* }; }
#test "$runlevel" = 4 && ARG=-autolog || ARG=-noautolog

# uncomment, if you want tons of debug info in your syslog
#ARG="$ARG -debug 255"

# If we upgraded the daemon, we can't use the --exec argument to
# start-stop-daemon since the inode will have changed.  The risk here is that
# in a situation where the daemon died, its pidfile was not cleaned up, and
# some other process is now running under that pid, start-stop-daemon will send
# signals to an innocent process.  However, this seems like a corner case.
# C'est la vie!
if [ -e $UPGRADEFILE ]; then
  SSD_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --startas $DAEMON"
else
  SSD_ARGS="--pidfile $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON"
fi

stillrunning () {
  if expr "$(cat /proc/$DAEMONPID/cmdline 2> /dev/null)" : "$DAEMON" > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    true
  else
    # if the daemon does not remove its own pidfile, we will
    rm -f $PIDFILE $UPGRADEFILE
    false
  fi;
}

case "$1" in
  start)
    if [ -e $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE ] &&
       [ "$HEED_DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER" = "true" ] &&
       [ "$(cat $DEFAULT_DISPLAY_MANAGER_FILE)" != "$DAEMON" ]; then
      echo "Not starting K Display Manager (kdm); it is not the default display manager."
    else
      echo -n "Starting K Display Manager: kdm"
      start-stop-daemon --start --quiet $SSD_ARGS -- $ARG || echo -n " already running"
      echo "."
    fi
  ;;

  restart)
    /etc/init.d/kdm stop
    if [ -f $PIDFILE ]; then
      if stillrunning; then
        exit 1
      fi
    fi
    /etc/init.d/kdm start
  ;;

  reload)
    echo -n "Reloading K Display Manager configuration..."
    if start-stop-daemon --stop --signal 1 --quiet $SSD_ARGS; then
      echo "done."
    else
      echo "kdm not running."
    fi
  ;;

  force-reload)
    /etc/init.d/kdm reload
  ;;

  stop)
    echo -n "Stopping K Display Manager: kdm"
    if [ ! -f $PIDFILE ]; then
      echo " not running ($PIDFILE not found)."
      exit 0
    else
      DAEMONPID=$(cat $PIDFILE | tr -d '[:blank:]')
      KILLCOUNT=1
      if [ ! -e $UPGRADEFILE ]; then
        if start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet $SSD_ARGS; then
          # give kdm's signal handler a second to catch its breath
          sleep 1
        else
          echo -n " not running"
        fi
      fi
      while [ $KILLCOUNT -le 5 ]; do
        if stillrunning; then
          kill $DAEMONPID
        else
          break
        fi
        sleep 1
        KILLCOUNT=$(( $KILLCOUNT + 1 ))
      done
      if stillrunning; then
        echo -n " not responding to TERM signal (pid $DAEMONPID)"
      else
        rm -f $UPGRADEFILE
      fi
    fi
    echo "."
  ;;

  *)
    echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/kdm {start|stop|restart|reload|force-reload}"
    exit 1
    ;;
esac

exit 0

kdm starts but blocks my keyboard and mouse. Here is a video I shoot so you can see the problem better:

Watch video

Also a ISO-Image will be up soon at:

Download paldo-kde-live-cd-testing-2008-10-26-2111.iso

maybe someone can point me in the right direction ...

Here some comments of my users:

http://forum.paldo.org/index.php?action ... 2#post2706

The screen gets black on a real pc. You can move the mouse but no kdm at all.
You've to press CTRL+ALT+F1 to start a tty1 login with paldo : paldo and run

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sudo /etc/init.d/kdm restrart

to start kdm. What went wrong? Is there a simple script out there to start kdm?

It may help you to ask on the KDE mailing lists, as I know little about KDM, all I know is that many KDE features ( for example Shutdown in the menu ) are dependent upon it. You are more likely to find the developers ( who know KDM ) on the mailing lists than in a forum.