Stig Mogensen wrote:

> I did my daily "emerge sync && emerge -Duva world" on 9th June, and
> after that kdm is beaving oddly.

Right around that time a couple of really important packages were
upgraded. Messing up on or more configuration file updates could have
caused you some odd trouble. It would, however, be strange if it
affected kdm.

> I get the kdm logon allright, but if I try to log in as user, I just
> get the logon prompt again. If I log in as root, everything comes up
> nicely. If I login as user, in the commandpromt, and fire up
> "startx", KDE starts fine.

Sort of reminds me of what happened a time when my ~/.dmrc file got
corrupted. Just deleting it did the trick for me. Not sure this is the
same issue, though.

--
PeKaJe

And yes, IMO it does look like a cross between chicken scratchings, C++
barf, and a very bad day at the data dump. -- High opinions of X.CPP