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KDM/KDE on Slackware64 13.1

by on Aug.29, 2010, under Software

Actually, it’s slackware64-current, but it’s pretty much the same for today’s issue.

Don’t ask me why, but for some reason my girlfriend wanted to start KDM/KDE.
(probably because enlightenment now completely abandoned their piece of garbage login manager ‘entranced’).
So she ran a ton of updates – “slackpkg update ; slackpkg upgrade-all” and rebooted.
KDM came up fine. Then she tried to login and was greeted by:

Cannot open ConsoleKit session: Unable to open session: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 127

After clicking this away KDE started to load but stopped shortly after that and KDM was greeting her again. (continue reading…)

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