Mandrake login problem

[Asheville Joe]

I understand.  The problem is I don't know what I lost.  I assume that 
if /usr/bin was totally trashed, I would have noticed bigger problems 
than this.  /usr/bin has a ton of stuff in it.  I can see that printing 
(cups, etc.) is based there and that works fine.

So, I'll probably try reinstalling kde when I get up the nerve.

Joe

Robert Meyer wrote:

>/usr/bin/kdm
>/usr/bin/gdm
>
>The problem that you're going to have just pulling those files back is that
>there are a bunch of files that seem to go with them.  Here is a relavant but
>not necessarily complete list:
>
>kdm:
>/usr/share/apps/kdm/
>/usr/share/config/kdm/
>/usr/share/applnk/Settings/System/kdm.desktop
>/usr/share/applnk-mdk/Configuration/KDE/System/kdm.desktop
>/usr/share/applnk-mdk-simplified/.hidden/Configuration/KDE/System/kdm.desktop
>/usr/bin/kdm_config
>/usr/bin/kdm
>/usr/bin/kdm_greet
>/usr/bin/kdmdesktop
>/usr/lib/menu/simplified/kdebase-kdm
>/usr/lib/menu/kdebase-kdm
>/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kdm.la
>/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kdm.so
>
>
>gdm:
>/usr/share/gdm/
>/usr/bin/gdm-binary
>/usr/bin/gdmchooser
>/usr/bin/gdmphotosetup
>/usr/bin/gdmgreeter
>/usr/bin/gdmlogin
>/usr/bin/gdmmktemp
>/usr/bin/gdmthemetester
>/usr/bin/gdmsetup
>/usr/lib/menu/gdm
>/usr/share/applications/gdmflexiserver.desktop
>/usr/share/applications/gdmsetup.desktop
>/usr/sbin/gdm-restart
>/usr/sbin/gdm-safe-restart
>/usr/sbin/gdm-stop
>/usr/sbin/gdmaskpass
>/usr/sbin/gdmconfig
>/usr/sbin/gdmopen
>/usr/sbin/gdmsetup
>/etc/security/console.apps/gdmsetup
>/etc/X11/gdm/
>/etc/pam.d/gdmsetup
>/etc/pam.d/gdm
>/etc/pam.d/gdm-autologin
>
>Hope this helps...
>
>Cheers!
>
>Bob
>--- Asheville Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>  
>
>>I had a problem recently and Mandrake's equivalent of scandisk repaired 
>>my disk during boot up.  Since then, when I boot, I get xdm loaded and 
>>it puts up an Xwindows Login instead of the mandrake login panel.  Among 
>>other things, this prevents me from shutting down without going to an Xterm.
>>
>>I've been researching it and have found that /etc/X11/prefdm chooses the 
>>display manager by reading a file /etc/sysconfig/desktop and also by 
>>searching for window managers.  Parts of the code do which on mdkkdm, 
>>kdm , gdm, and finally, xdm.
>>
>>I su'd to root and did a which on each one of those files and the only 
>>one it found was xdm.  So that's where my problem seems to be.
>>
>>I need to know where mdkkdm, kdm, and gdm are supposed to be.  Then, 
>>hopefully, I can either restore them from my dump backup or download 
>>them from somewhere.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Joe
>>
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>>
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>>
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