[KLUG Members] Re: Suse thread-local support error after update

[John Pesce]

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 00:31, somercet@core.com wrote:
> <boggle> Wow, fascinating set of symptoms.

Truly. logging in as root produces no errors.
Only users get errors.

> > Dumb question, but did you reboot after the update?

For sanity I reboot once more with the same effects.


> > > This is weird. I just ran Yast2 under Suse 9.0 and it included a
> > > kernel update.
> 
> I'm guessing this all worked previously. Do you have more updates to
> install?

Suse 9.0 is now fully updated. Everything worked prior to this last
update set.

> > > I can login as root just fine under KDM.
> > > 
> > > If I try to login as a user now under KDM I get a dialog that
> > > kdeinit could not start. Check your configuration.
> 
> class tree.) Try:
> 
> ls -l `which kdeinit`
> 
> and try:
> 
> ldd `which kdeinit`
> 
> as root and as a user, and see if they differ.
> 

No differences.

> > > If I login as a user remotely and try and run an X app like yast2 I
> > > get the error:
> > > 
> > > cannot set up thread-local storage: kernel too old for thread-local
> > > storage support
> 
> Does remote login as a generic user work until you run something like
> yast2?

Yes generic user logins work fine on console or remotely. I only get the
error when I try to login to KDM now. I can now remote login as a
generic user and run an X app, though I thought I couldn't before...
Interesting note: I logged into KDM as root just now and then su - user
and I was able to open an X app without an error.

> 2.6 has thread-local storage. Is your kernel a heavily patched 2.4 with
> NPTL, or 2.6? I didn't see these errors with 2.6 and Debian KDE 3.x.

This is not patched by me. I installed the latest Suse kernel update,
which is kernel-2.4.21-215-smp4G. I have another computer that was
updated the same, but it doesn't have a problem.
 

> Also read /var/log/XFree86.?.log and ~/.xsession-errors.

I don't see any errors in XFree86.0.log when a user logs in.


~generic/.xsession-errors contains the errors

cannot set up thread-local storage: kernel too old for thread-local
storage support.

startkde: Could not start kdeinit. Check your installation.



> As root, log into KDM and open a terminal:
> 
> cat .Xauthority > /home/$USER/.Xauthority
> 
> then `su - $USER` and try running apps from there.

see. above I could run Xapps sued to a generic user before cating
.Xauthority.


It is weird.  It is like a permission problem prevents a user from
logging into KDM to do something.