>From: OinkFreeBiker@att.net
>Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 23:38:52 +0000
>
>Still doing same thing...
>
>Okay, to recap. Wanting to boot straight to X, as per
>written instruction I put...
>
>   /usr/X11R6/bin/kdm 
>   
> ...at the end of /rc.local. 
> 
> Then, rebooting, the machine goes to X with a 
> graphical login.
> 
> But I can only login as root. If I login as me, the 
> screen goes berserk for about one  second, and then 
> settles down and the login gadget comes back again.
>[...]

Well, I was finally able to reproduce this myself after upgrading from
kde1 to kde2.

I was able to correct it by setting the PATH in
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsession like this:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin ; export PATH

(Put that near the top, after the "#!/bin/sh" line.)

Hope that helps.  If it does, you might want to file a bug report with
send-pr.

Cheers,
entropy

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