Howdy all,

I still get that thing where, after I put in account and 
passwd into KDM it will go blank for a couple of seconds 
and then flash back where it was before, asking account 
and passwd.

I had put off addressing this until there was time to 
update both XFree86 to 4.2.2 and KDE to 2.2.2  which I've 
now done. But kdm still does the flash-back.

I've already tried Sung N. Cho's thing, with one 
exception, thus...

/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/ 

...turns out as a link to...

/etc/X11/xdm/

...so I have...

/etc/X11/xdm/Sessions/KDE

...which contains...

#! /bin/sh
export KDEDIR=/usr/X11R6
exec ${KDEDIR}/bin/startkde $@

...and is chmod'd thus...

#chmod u+x KDE

Then, as a test, before I try kdm, I do this...

#rm /root/.xsession-errors

...just to be certain I won't be looking at ancient history.
Then I do...

#kdm

...and get the flash-back effect. And I go look in
/root/.xsession-errors and I find...

exec: xsm: not found

Any clues where to look next?

Thanks,

Gan