9 Feb
2013
9 Feb
'13
5:25 a.m.
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 23:30:16 -0500
From: mrmazda(a)earthlink.net
To: trinity-users(a)lists.pearsoncomputing.net
Subject: Re: [trinity-users] Cannot login using Trinity kdm on openSuSE 12.2
On 2013-02-08 15:52 (GMT-0500) J. Leslie Turriff composed:
Hi!
I installed Trinity in my openSuSE 12.2 on
X86_64, using the instructions
on your website.
With
DISPLAYMANAGER="/opt/trinity/bin/kdm" in
/etc/sysconfig/displaymanager and DEFAULT_WM="kdm" in
/etc/sysconfig/windowmanager, booting the system displays the Trinity
login prompt, but when I enter my username and password, the display just
blinks and refreshes the password field.
Any suggestions on how to proceed are welcome.
Take a look at thread http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/?0::4196 and
see if anything that belongs in the wiki never made it there. If you haven't
gotten this figured out in a couple of days I'll try to find time to
look at my two 12.2/TDE installs to see if I can help.
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I am able to login using xdm fine; it's just
TDM that's not working, as
far as I can tell. xdm works with twm and icewm, but TDM does not work with
either of them, so I'm pretty sure that there's something wrong with the
Trinity setup. I suspect that the absence of /etc/trinity probably has
something to do with it, but I don't know what is supposed to be in it.
LeslieA problem of XDM is that it doesn't let you choose from a simple menu the
window manager or desktop environment you want to use, this is why I would really try to
see if from GDM you could choose TDE as a desktop environment and try to see if you can
login properly and use Trinity. Plus it doesn't mean that XDM is able to see Trinity
or its paths. If after installing GDM you can login to use either twm, icewm or TDE, then
we'll know that the problem is with TDM, or simply using GDM might do the job.
From what I have seen by testing different TDE linux distros (mine, Francois
Andriot'S FC 17 with TDE and EXE GNU/Linux), in EXE, there is a /etc/trinity folder
while in FC17 and in PCLinuxOS, there is no /etc/trinity folders, as is probably the case
with OpenSUSE. Francois Andriot is the person who has made the packages for Fedora, PCLOS
and many other distros and I guess that probably all of them don't have an
/etc/trinity folder.
On PCLOS, I have found at least some of these files to be in /opt/trinity/share/config
Might the problem come from using 32bit packages on 64bit system?
I don't know if you do it on a fresh install or from your existing system, but I would
try to do it from a 32bit version of OpenSUSE, to see if it works as it should.
-Alexandre