Hi, debian squeeze is host, Suse11.2 is running als vserver. Other clients in the LAN make XDMCP on Suse 11.2. KDM starts, I can type name and password, but the the xmessage "Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus?" appears and I'm back in KDM. suse112:~ # ps ax PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ? Ss 0:01 init [2] 2366 ? Ss 0:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --system 2389 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/sshd -o PidFile=/var/run/sshd.init.pid 2396 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/bin/kdm 2417 ? Sl 0:00 /sbin/rsyslogd -c 4 -f /etc/rsyslog.conf 2441 ? Ss 0:00 /sbin/rpcbind 2452 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/nmbd -D -s /etc/samba/smb.conf 2545 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cupsd -C /etc/cups/cupsd.conf 2617 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/lib/postfix/master 2655 ? Ss 0:00 /usr/sbin/cron 2656 ? S 0:00 pickup -l -t fifo -u 2657 ? S 0:00 qmgr -l -t fifo -u 2667 ? S+ 0:00 login 2701 pts/1 Ss 0:00 /bin/bash -login 2765 pts/1 R+ 0:00 ps ax I've set up in Suse-Yast, that XDM not starts X11, X11 should not run in the vserver, only KDM. X is taken from the clients. Clients are Suse, Debian with XFCE, Xming under Windows, etc. # cat /home/<user>/.xsession-errors-rex4.local\:1 xset: bad font path element (#23), possible causes are: Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions Directory missing fonts.dir Incorrect font server address or syntax startkde: Starting up... Failed to start message bus: Failed to bind socket "/tmp/dbus-9cOQPWPuu6": Address already in use EOF in dbus-launch reading address from bus daemon startkde: Could not start D-Bus. Can you call qdbus? /var/log/messages Nov 12 21:46:11 suse112 kdm: rex4.local:1[3684]: Client start failed Nov 12 21:46:11 suse112 kdm: rex4.local:1[3684]: Cannot close ConsoleKit session: Unable to close session: no session open Nov 12 21:46:11 suse112 kdm_config[3834]: Multiple occurrences of key 'StaticServers' in section [General] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc Nov 12 21:46:11 suse112 kdm_config[3834]: Multiple occurrences of key 'UseTheme' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc Nov 12 21:54:11 suse112 kdm_config[4346]: Multiple occurrences of key 'StaticServers' in section [General] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc Nov 12 21:54:11 suse112 kdm_config[4346]: Multiple occurrences of key 'UseTheme' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /usr/share/kde4/config/k These error messages are wrong, 'StaticServers' etc. does not occur multiple in kdmrc. kdmrc is untouched. # init 5 init: /dev/initctl: No such file or directory so I did mkfifo /dev/initctl , the /dev/initctl seems so rest permanently, even after a reboot. But runlevel 5 is not reached. BTW: I don't need runlevel 5, the links of kdm/xdm and dbus in rc5.d are now copied to rc3.d. The qt-dbus seems to the sticking point, it does'nt start: suse112:/ # /usr/bin/qdbus Could not connect to D-Bus server: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ExecFailed: /bin/dbus-launch terminated abnormally with the following error: Autolaunch error: X11 initialization failed. Does qdbus want to start X11? - I configured in yast that KDM should not start X11. Where can I check whether yast did it correctly? Who can help? tia Ekkard