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Hello

since I've upgrade my Mageia to version 2 I have this problem. It doesn't happens always, but 1 time of 3 after booting the screen stays black and nothing happens. If I change to the message console, I can see this error: kdm[nbr] X Server timeout, terminating.

Does anyone know why this is happening.

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Does this also happen with a freshly created user, or with xguest user?

Hi

I have the problem before I could login, so it is independent of the user. It happens after boot.
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Please attach your /var/lib/mageia/kde4-profiles/Default/share/config/kdm/kdmrc

Hi

This is the file. I had to change the extension to .txt as the forum didn't allow me to upload it with kdrmc without extension.

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Compared it to mine, and besides autologin which i've got enabled and the vty it uses not much major differences: http://pastebin.com/VDUSzVCd

FWIW, you could try to adjust it to something like

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# Core config for all displays
[X-*-Core]
ServerTimeout=120

to see if that fixes the timeout issues, or maybe even use a higher value like 500 or so.

There are some related bugreport for other distros, f.ex.:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=524751
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=52310 linking to
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=45648
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.de ... .user/1645

And there's also a hint in http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/k ... #doc_chap7

Code Listing 7.5: kdm notice

If when you restart xdm, kdm fails to start with a message like "gentoo kdm[2116]: X
server startup timeout, terminating" in /var/log/messages, uncomment the ServerTimeout
line in "grep kdmrc /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kdm-4.3.1/CONTENTS | cut -f2 -d " ""
and be sure to increase the timeout - 60 should work

Hi

I will try to change this values.

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