Version: (using KDE 4.3.4) OS: Linux Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages From: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=561592 Reported by: Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de> I set the severity to normal however it has a mayor impact to the usability. But I use sid only on my laptop where I use suspend to ram so not having so often to login. To the problem: Since the update I always have to login twice. The problem seems to be that the $HOME is mounted _after_ the password is correct and kdm seems to not allow the $HOME to change the volumeid or so. This change was introduced in the last update of kdm. On my laptop I use pam-encfs to mount my $HOME which work well. It also do not help to mount the directory on a console in front of logging in under kdm. kdm.log give the following on every first login: Dropping master error setting MTRR (base = 0xe0000000, size = 0x10000000, type = 1) Invalid argument (22) the rest is equal to a successful login.
I can confirm this bug as many other users (at least on Debian) can. I supposed that it was a duplicate of 219065, but the same happens with root account too (as opposed to what is reported in 219065). sudo cat /var/log/daemon.log | grep kdm Dec 22 09:10:17 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3286]: Abnormal termination of greeter for display :0, code 1, signal 0 Dec 22 09:10:17 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3286]: Abnormal greeter termination, code 1, sig 0 Dec 22 14:52:44 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[3143]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 22 14:55:47 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3133]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Method "OpenSessionWithParameters" with signature "a(sv)" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" doesn't exist Dec 22 14:55:47 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3133]: Client start failed Dec 22 14:55:47 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3133]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open Dec 22 14:55:51 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[3232]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 22 22:13:55 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[3118]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 22 22:14:05 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3110]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Method "OpenSessionWithParameters" with signature "a(sv)" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" doesn't exist Dec 22 22:14:05 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3110]: Client start failed Dec 22 22:14:05 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3110]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open Dec 22 22:14:09 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[3206]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 23 09:19:14 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[3109]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 23 09:19:24 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3101]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Method "OpenSessionWithParameters" with signature "a(sv)" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" doesn't exist Dec 23 09:19:24 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3101]: Client start failed Dec 23 09:19:24 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[3101]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open Dec 23 09:19:28 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[3197]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 23 09:49:58 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[30594]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 23 09:50:03 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[30586]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Method "OpenSessionWithParameters" with signature "a(sv)" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" doesn't exist Dec 23 09:50:03 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[30586]: Client start failed Dec 23 09:50:03 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[30586]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open Dec 23 09:50:07 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[30683]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 23 09:51:08 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[367]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 23 09:51:17 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[356]: Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Method "OpenSessionWithParameters" with signature "a(sv)" on interface "org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager" doesn't exist Dec 23 09:51:17 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[356]: Client start failed Dec 23 09:51:17 Abraracourcix kdm: :0[356]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open Dec 23 09:51:20 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[457]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 23 09:52:07 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[697]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory Dec 23 09:52:44 Abraracourcix kdm_greet[876]: Cannot load /usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face: No such file or directory
This is a strange consolekit/dbus issue, but most probably not a kdm bug. See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562026
You are right. I have seen similar bug reports involving kernel 2.6.32.x too.