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Hello, |
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On Wednesday, 11. August 2010 07:15:13 Stéphane Guedon wrote: |
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> > > i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured |
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> > > /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server. |
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> > To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86. |
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> > > After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box with at least 5 |
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> > > or 6 icons in it where one after the other icon displays blurred and |
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> > > then comes clear (Disk, Tools, World, ...). |
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> > > This process stops at the fourth icon (after the world icon) which |
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> > > remains blurred. At this stage the PC simply hangs - no ssh, no |
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> > > VT-switch, nothing. |
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> > > So my first question is - what stage the fourth icon stands for. And |
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> > > where to look for the issue. |
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> > > After a reboot to the command line i viewed the logs |
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> > > (/var/log/messages, /var/log/Xorg.0.log) but nothing looks suspicious. |
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> > > The last line in |
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> > > |
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> > > /var/log/messages reads: |
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> > > <timestamp> <hostname> kdm: 0:[<pid>]: pam_unix(kde:session): session |
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> > > |
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> > > opened for ... |
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> > > The user was newly created using "useradd -m -g ...). There was no |
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> > > .kde4 directory in his home directory. |
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> > Usually i add new users also to the plugdev group. As a test i removed |
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> > the user from this group i got past the plash screen. Now the normal |
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> > screen came up. |
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> > So it seems that the problem has something to do with the plugging |
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> > system. |
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> > At which places i should throw an eye ? |
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> first of all, do you have some disk space in your $HOME ? |
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Yes. There is at least 5 GBytes free. |
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> kde won't start until it have some space ... |
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It is starting if the user is not member of the group plugdev. |
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I thought - ok, if not plugdev then use policykit. I enabled this use-flag and |
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re-build everything marked by this flag (emerge -uDN world). |
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But this does not help. I'm back to not being able to log in. :-( |
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regards |
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Petric |