Bugzilla – Bug 813459
Invalid errors generated by kdm_config in /var/log/messages
Last modified: 2013-09-05 23:21:42 UTC
Created attachment 533511 [details] Grep of one days messages from /var/log/messages User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/534.34 (KHTML, like Gecko) konqueror/4.10.0 Safari/534.34 I've just been through my "/var/log/messages" file looking for some errors displayed (too fast to read) when booting up between grub and "kdm" login. I saw these comments in the "messages" so i checked the "/usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc" file and there are no "multiple occurrences" of either sections or keys. 2013-04-04T09:10:40.555729+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of section [General] in /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. 2013-04-04T09:10:40.557071+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-*-Core] in /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. 2013-04-04T09:10:40.557251+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-*-Greeter] in /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. 2013-04-04T09:10:40.557452+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of key 'Language' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc 2013-04-04T09:10:40.557666+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of key 'ShowUsers' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc 2013-04-04T09:10:40.557870+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of key 'Theme' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc 2013-04-04T09:10:40.558049+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of key 'UseBackground' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc 2013-04-04T09:10:40.558223+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of key 'UseTheme' in section [X-*-Greeter] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc 2013-04-04T09:10:40.558399+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-:*-Core] in /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. 2013-04-04T09:10:40.558591+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of key 'AllowShutdown' in section [X-:*-Core] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc 2013-04-04T09:10:40.558775+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of section [X-:0-Core] in /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc. Consider merging them. 2013-04-04T09:10:40.559581+01:00 linux-1b0m kdm_config[2160]: Multiple occurrences of key 'AutoLoginEnable' in section [X-:0-Core] of /usr/share/kde4/config/kdm/kdmrc I reported it on bugs.kde (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317822) and its been suggested its reported to Opensuse as kdm_config has not been changed upstream for 10 years. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Reboot PC 2. 3. Actual Results: False error messages in /var/log/messages Expected Results: False error messages in /var/log/messages
Created attachment 533512 [details] kdmrc file that relates to previous attachement This file is the file that is supposed to have the duplications mentioned in the error detail
I reported it on bugs.kde (https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=317822) and its been suggested its reported to Opensuse as kdm_config has not been changed upstream for 10 years.
Hi Ian, thanks for the report. This is actually a duplicate of bug 267903 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 267903 ***