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From: "Stéphane Guedon" <stephane@××××××××××.eu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:04:05
Message-Id: 201008110715.25223.stephane@22decembre.eu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Icons at startup of a KDE session by Petric Frank
1 Le Tuesday 10 August 2010 22:48:34, Petric Frank a écrit :
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > On Tuesday, 10. August 2010 20:26:29 Petric Frank wrote:
5 > > i've installed Gentoo and KDE 4.4 on an AMD64 system, configured
6 > > /etc/conf.d/xdm to start kdm as login server.
7 >
8 > To be clear - it is not an 64 Bit OS, it is still x86.
9 >
10 > > After login the KDE4 desktop starts up - a little box with at least 5 or
11 > > 6 icons in it where one after the other icon displays blurred and then
12 > > comes clear (Disk, Tools, World, ...).
13 > > This process stops at the fourth icon (after the world icon) which
14 > > remains blurred. At this stage the PC simply hangs - no ssh, no
15 > > VT-switch, nothing.
16 > >
17 > > So my first question is - what stage the fourth icon stands for. And
18 > > where to look for the issue.
19 > >
20 > > After a reboot to the command line i viewed the logs (/var/log/messages,
21 > > /var/log/Xorg.0.log) but nothing looks suspicious. The last line in
22 > >
23 > > /var/log/messages reads:
24 > > <timestamp> <hostname> kdm: 0:[<pid>]: pam_unix(kde:session): session
25 > >
26 > > opened for ...
27 > >
28 > > The user was newly created using "useradd -m -g ...). There was no .kde4
29 > > directory in his home directory.
30 >
31 > Usually i add new users also to the plugdev group. As a test i removed the
32 > user from this group i got past the plash screen. Now the normal screen
33 > came up.
34 >
35 > So it seems that the problem has something to do with the plugging system.
36 >
37 > At which places i should throw an eye ?
38 >
39 > regards
40 > Petric
41
42 first of all, do you have some disk space in your $HOME ?
43
44 kde won't start until it have some space ...
45
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