On 17 November 2011 21:17, Darrell Anderson
<humanreadable@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On a whim I tried this really big
> hammer. I created a patch to strip from the kdebase code all
> references of consolekit.c and CONSOLE_KIT. Seemed like a
> reasonable idea.
>
> No luck. Still can't login with KDM.
>
> Would somebody please provide me a
> knee-bone-connected-to-the-thigh-bone explanation or simple
> flow chart how KDM runs through everything? I'm still
> leaning toward this being an authentication problem. Perhaps
> with some kind of flow chart I can try something.
Some progress.
I tried some different -debug options with kdm. I saw an error message "password verify failed." The only place the message is found is in kdm/backend/client.c.
Any ideas where to attack next?