[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4 halts - how to catch a reason?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> Last week or two (I mostly use Gnome and can not say more precisely) after
> KDE4 starting session apps starts also, as well as bg and panels. But then I
> get black screen (during this KDE4 start process), and Ctrl-Alt-Backspace does
> nothing. The only way I have in hand to continue is to use SysRq kernel
> hacking (s, u, b).
>
> Have you an idea how to catch the halt reason?

Try to ssh into the box from another machine and inspect the logs 
("~/.xsession-errors" and "/var/log/Xorg.0.log").