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