[TriLUG] KDM Hemorrhaging

[Paul D. Boyle]

Hi,

I had a SCSI drive go bad which had my /opt and /usr/local partitions
on it. The PC technician in my department replaced the controller board
and the disk works again.  The controller board was from the exact same
model of disk the original disk was (with, according to the tech, minor
differences in firmware).  The disk works fine, however, my system is
mysteriously not acting exactly the same.  In particular, KDM can't
get started. 

When this disk drive was out, and I was running the system, another
display manager (xdm?) would come up at runlevel 5 (without all the SuSE
stuff and my own customizations).  

Now with the disk (and the new controller) back in, the error in
/var/log/messages from my SuSE 9.1 system is  as follows:

Dec  1 10:12:16 laue init: Switching to runlevel: 5
Dec  1 10:12:19 laue kernel: agpgart: Found an AGP 1.0 compliant device at \
 0000:00:00.0.
Dec  1 10:12:19 laue kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 \
 into 1x mode
Dec  1 10:12:19 laue kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 \
 into 1x mode
Dec  1 10:12:21 laue kdm: :0[3565]: Cannot write to greeter for display :0

This happens on both bootup and using 'telinit'.  When level 5 fails, it drops
back to runlevel 3.

>From the last line, it looks like it is a permission problem.  However,
I haven't found one yet.  Can anyone suggest what could be causing
this problem?

As an aside, yes, I do have backups of /usr/local among other directories,
but I didn't think to back up /opt because I assumed it was mostly
executables or config files which I don't normally monkey with.  I guess
I was wrong. Ack.

Thanks for any help.

Paul

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