Re: [gentoo-user] KDE won't start up....

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

Am Donnerstag, 5. Januar 2012, 01:04:53 schrieb Andrew Lowe:
> Hi all,
> 	I had a running KDE 4 setup and this afternoon did an:
>
> emerge -NuD world
>
> There were no errors reported, the kernel source had been updated, so I
> compiled the new kernel, and copied it into place, recompiled my nvidia
> driver and also evdev drivers and then rebooted the machine. Now, the
> machine boots up, I get all the usual booting messages, starting ntp,
> mounting drives, getting IP addresses, exporting nfs and so on, the
> screen goes black, the hour glass of the KDE log in screen briefly
> appears then the screen is blanked and I'm back at a text login.
>
> 	I've logged into the machine from the text login and recompiled the
> kernel, copied it into place, recompiled nvidia and evdev and still the
> problem persists. I've looked at the xorg & kdm logs and there are  a
> few errors there that google searches seem to say are OK. The thing that
> is confusing is that when at the text prompt, I can start up bog
> standard X via "startx" and the mouse and keyboard work but I can't get
> KDE to start. Does anyone have any ideas as to what could be causing
> this problem? Any thoughts on where, besides the two obvious logs, that
> I can try and track down what's going wrong here, or steps I can take to
> debug the KDE startup?
>
> 	Any thoughts greatly appreciated,
>
> 		Andrew

.xsession-errors

Xorg.0.log

please. 
If both are huge, upload them somewhere.
Also make sure that the permissions of /tmp and /var/tmp are ok. Had it in the 
past that some update did some very scary things to both places.

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