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-kdebase (4:3.4.2-3) unstable; urgency=low
-
- *** Changes to KDM conffiles:
-
- * Users upgrading KDM from 3.3.x, will find that KDM no longer uses the
- /etc/trinity/kdm/Xservers file, if /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc was updated to
- the version shipped with KDM 3.4.x. The package upgrade scripts
- will not remove Xservers even if kdmrc has been upgraded, if they detect
- local modifications. This should allow administrators to merge their
- Xservers changes into kdmrc before themselves removing Xservers. The new
- ServerArgsLocal key in kdmrc is where most old Xservers customizations
- should be placed.
-
- * Irrespective of the removal of the Xservers file, we highly recommend that
- all administrators accept the installation of the updated kdmrc file
- during the package upgrade. Many important changes to KDM's defaults have
- been made, and KDM is exceedingly bad at handling anything but the latest
- kdmrc format, so the nuissance of re-customizing KDM will likely prove
- less than the nuissance of dealing with a KDM that isn't working properly.
- If you have already upgraded KDM package without accepting the new kdmrc,
- purging and reinstalling the package should achieve the desired result.
-
- *** Changes to user login script handling:
-
- * Another important change that users upgrading from KDM 3.3.x may notice
- is that KDM's ability to source personal login scripts, long disabled, has
- been restored. The exact files sourced on login will depend on the user's
- choice of shell. For users of bash, KDM will source /etc/profile, followed
- by ~/.bash_profile or, if that is not present, ~/.profile. Note that KDM
- is NOT spawning a login shell, but is merely mimicking the behaviour that
- popular shells would exhibit if they were login shells, by manually
- sourcing the customary login scripts. /etc/trinity/kdm/Xsession controls this
- behaviour.
-
- * The important downside of the above approach is that KDM will utterly fail
- to start a user's session if the newly sourced files contain certain types
- of commands. For instance, many commands will cause the login attempt to
- fail because they expect an interactive shell, or because you are trying
- to "exec" something that cannot provide an X session. For instance,
- "exec ksmserver" will launch KDE, but "exec bash" will fail. Thus if you
- are unsure why KDM is refusing to start your session, try commenting out
- elements of the newly sourced login scripts, and you may find the problem
- resolved.
-
- -- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> Thu, 8 Sep 2005 11:13:41 -0400
-
-kdebase (4:3.3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
-
- * Users upgrading from KDE 3.2 might find that their keyboards seem no longer
- to work in KDM. This problem is caused by a change in KDE's handling of
- virtual terminals. The setting which puts KDM on vt7, which was contained
- in /etc/trinity/kdm/Xservers, has changed, and is also now located in
- /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc.
-
- * Users who, when upgrading to KDE 3.3, opted to replace their Xservers file
- with the version shipped by the package, but chose to retain their
- /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc file, will thus have a KDM configuration which nowhere
- contains a setting which properly places KDM on vt7. This can result in a
- race condition which has the end effect of breaking the keyboard when using
- KDM.
-
- * The solution to the problem is either to replace both of Xservers and
- kdmrc, or neither, when upgrading to KDE 3.3 for the first time.
-
- * Users already stuck can, after killing KDE, purge and re-install the kdm
- package, ensuring that the latest, fresh copies are installed.
- Alternatively, they can edit /etc/trinity/kdm/kdmrc and add the following
- line:
-
- ServerVTs=-7
-
- in the [General] section of the file.
-
- -- Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:11:07 +0100